Reasoning and Logic

[novapsyche]

"Reasoning and logic are to each other as health is to medicine, or--better--as conduct is to morality. Reasoning refers to a gamut of natural thought processes in the everyday world. Logic is how we ought to think if objective truth is our goal--and the everyday world is very little concerned with objective truth."

--Julian Jaynes, Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, p. 41.

Comments

[sulphuroxide.livejournal.com]

i just thought i'd comment... that classically, logic is dependant on its assumptions for assertions of truth.

[simplewhore.livejournal.com]

Logic is not, as in shown in the world, dependent on reasoning, but, alas, the opposite.