"Logic is neither a science or an art, but a dodge".”
I would say that logic is the study of arguments and it is one kind of critical thinking. Sometimes is it translated as a sentence or a reason, but that is still not enough to help us understand the more specialized meaning of it today. There are many principles, but the main thing that we study in logic are principles governing the validity of arguments. If you take three arguments that are obviously good arguments but only in the sense that their conclusions follow from the assumptions. If the assumptions of the arguments are true, the conclusion of the argument must also be true. Some claim that logic is the study of truth, and is the most basic and fundamental science. While every science aims at truth, logic is the science of truth itself. It tries to discover the truth about the truth.
I agree with your statement that it is one kind of critical thinking. Though, if we are living by other people logics, then how are we testing our human minds? Does this mean it is still critical thinking if we are not "critcally" thinking? The vailidity of our arguments are indeed based on the principles governing our arguments. This is fact I feel is true, for example in math when we learn a new equation, we study the usage of such equation based on the principles that help solve the problem. Logic helps provide a truth in any statement made!
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