David Flandry: Faith in Logic

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> > David Flandry:

> > You don't prove that logic works, you perceive it.

> 

> (DAVE 8/7)  David:  Yet logic tells you that this is the case.  It still

> remains that logic is the starting point, and you have faith in it when it

> tells you that you perceive it - it still begs the question.


AVATAR
Dave, here is an example of simple logic:

I am hungry; therefore I should eat.

That is correct reasoning.  If I were hungry, and, to satisfy my hunger,
I decide to sing my national anthem, that would be incorrect reasoning. 
Fortunately for humanity, we are all born with the ability to reason
correctly.  One of the first times you did it was when you sucked on
your mother's breast as an infant.  You were born with the ability.  To
say that you have to have faith in logic to use it is almost the same as
saying you have to have faith in your mind to use it.  If you are not a
brainless vegetable, you are using reason, and if you are reasoning
correctly, then you are using logic.  Damn, this arsenic tastes good!

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