OldLady
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I'm not sure I'm hung up. Logical thinking is certainly an improvement over some of what I hear around here. I agree with you 100%. I just have a certain wariness about philosophical cleverness. When I was in college, I only took one philosophy course, but I took my mandatory two semesters of Humanities from a professor in the philosophy department (his take on Wuthering Heights was priceless...lol). He kept insisting that if I believed good and evil were relativist concepts, that I had to believe that Hitler's final solution was okay. When we get into arguments over the nature of being, and the existence of good--or God, no one can actually prove it, G.T. I believe there are different schools of thought on this, and they would be quite put out if you told them they were just being opinionated.The laws of logic are how the errors are found, and they're also not a blind set of rules but instead they're the most accurate we've got.I do NOT think that philosophical arguments should be won based on opinion; I am simply pointing out that logical arguments are not immune from error, either.
Logic is a blind set of rules that, if based on a false underlying premise, can lead you to ridiculous or even evil outcomes.
It is the underlying agreement on A or B or C that is the real trick, isn't it? My point is that the jury is still out on that.
If your argument is based on a false premise or set of premises, its using logical deduction that would attest to that.
Im not sure what the big hang up is, there...