Blog Post #3

When thinking about logic I try to believe that if something is logical it makes sense. After all logic dictates that, in the alphabet, A always comes after B and C comes next and so on and so forth. Logic is how we order ourselves by those few undeniable truths. If we didnt have those few rules nobody could agree on anything. For example if we didn't have the ABC rule I mentioned above nobody would be able to learn anything, maybe because one student learned that B always came after C while the student sitting next to him learned C always comes after B. We would never be able to agree on most things and would, in the worst case scenario, not advance as a society.

However, the quote "Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence." by J.W. Krutch got me thinking about the infallibility of those rules. One person could commit a terrible type of crime under the same logic that in his own mind is as simple and unbendable as the ABC rule. Everyone has different opinions on things. To a color blind person some colors may not exist or be other colors in their eyes. The only way a complicated claim can be logic is if you find someone else who agrees with you. If not then there will always be one loophole in your statement for someone else to exploit.

The conclusion that I have come to about logic is that outside of those few truths you are only truly right if someone agrees with what you are saying and/or you sound convincing enough to recruit people to your way of thinking. So you could go the wrong way, just make sure you're convincing about it.