Forcing Logic is Irrelevant - But Humans Do it Anyway!

It seems rather illogical to force logic to prove something, for if someone starts out with erroneous assumptions and builds upon false premise how can they ever guarantee they've arrived at the best possible decision, or correct answer? The reality is they can't, but humans do this all the time. Most often this occurs when someone is trying to prove themselves correct, and so they set out to do just that, and they build their logic tree, or put forth axioms, rules, and statements, that they assume to be correct.

But just because someone assumes that an axiom, rule, or statement is correct doesn't mean it fits in all circumstances, and trying to force logic in this way is irrelevant, not only to the process itself, but to the inconsistency of logical time efficiency. After all, why waste time using false assumptions to try to solve a problem that is relevant? You wouldn't do that, because if you really want to solve the problem, using logic that is, you must do so using factual or correct rules, statements, or axioms.

Now then, that does not mean that you cannot create a situation or an imaginary space, and try to solve an imaginary solution within that imaginary space. However if you are borrowing rules and statements from outside that imaginary space to solve the problem within it, which you will most likely have to do unless you reinvent all the axioms each time, then you have already broken a rule of logic in some regards.

Because it is illogical to solve a problem using rules borrowed from another sector, industry, human endeavor, or scientific realm. That doesn't mean that humans don't do it, they do it all the time. After all where else can they borrow the rules from, because if they create rules out of thin air, they have to prove that those rules are correct, but to do so they have to use other rules, but where they come from in the beginning?

Who created the first rule? And how we know the person that created the first rule, which all other rules are built upon, knew what they were doing? And who is the prime mover, the individual that set it all in motion? It seems no matter how we answer these questions, or how far back we take it to justify or verify the rules that we use when solving logical problems, at some point we are Forcing Logic, and we merely complicate that when we borrow rules from places we shouldn't.

Even though logicitions know this, they are human, and they will do it anyway. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 22,700 articles was a lot of work - because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off..

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