Wait I Have Faith In Logic!

You can't prove logic using logic...

So logically we cant use logic because it could well be wrong?

If you have an answer to this conundrum then please post.

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[Yansver]

Logic is useful and seems to have a good track record in comparison to faith. By using logic, we have been able to solve many problems as a species mainly in the fields of science. Logic, in this manner, is self-correcting whereas faith is not.

I am aware that this is, again, simply using logic to prove logic, but ultimately, what you would end up with is a problem with epistemology in near-Descartian proportions, and the problem that I have with solipsism is that it offers no replacement.

[PaddyCuinne]

The best response i have found is without logic there is no reason not to believe in logic. So it's a valid choice..

[PsoMyth]

I think you got a little too philosophical there. But we base logic on "what works", like you said. Practical use is (the faith in) Logic.

[PaddyCuinne]

Yeah i do that..

[AverageTricks]

It's called being a "believer" for a reason you moron.

[dannytheshort]

You do have faith in Logic. it is circular logic no matter how you try to prove it. Also if you try to use expeirence, you are just as "irrational" as Christians, because they believe in God because it works. It probably works more for them because they have reason to beleive in Logic, the uniformity of nature, an actual moral law and not just a moral agreement; and on a more than subject scale. Their beleif actually makes them have reason that the laws of nature will hold, while atheists don't.

[guitarhero666759]

so what's logic really? another form of faith?

[guitarhero666759]

maybe now you can see how at every moment in our lives we use faith, we have faith the sun will rise, when we buy an airline ticket on the net we have faith that our money is in the right hands and not a thief, the general public has faith in the scientist, yet their theories change every couple of years. we have a personal experience that logic works so in the same way very serious theists(Christians, Bhuddists, Hare Krishnas) have had a personal experience of god and feel constantly joyful

[subconcioussongsvid]

You're good.

[Anon11674]

Do you have any doubts about physical cause and effect?

The best I can work it out, logic is nothing but a mental version of cause and effect. When it's used right, of course.

[rainbowrockss]

Hehe! I like this I had never thought of logic like this before!

[thramagen]

the only other things there are besides logic are physical and emotional, so in order to not fall into a unlogical trap of the loop, you have to use emotion or something physical to. but that itself is illogical. so either way you go your FUCKED.

[SBRslacker00]

The most interesting thing about this video is that it is marked down to 2 stars. Maybe it's because it's a response video to the Atheist Experience and the video questions the premise of Atheism. Too many Aism fundies?

It's tough to question the validity of logic & reason in the same way that it's tough to question communication. One has to reason and communicate simply to ask the question itself. It's more of an indication about how there aren't really any absolutes, just 'best evidence'.

[flamethrowerabc]

hmm. i got asked a similar question at camp once about the scientific method.

the scientific method is basicallly saying that if something happens it will happen again. and we know it works because its worked for us in the past, which is kind of circular