Acronyms and symbols used in What is Logic?:
| OGC | - One Global (Multiversal) Context |
| OGT | - One Global (Multiversal) Truth |
| SOM | - Subject-Object Metaphysics |
What is Logic?
According to Aristotle, logic is a branch of philosophy which studies valid inference. Logic is a way to reason well (more generally) about reality. We agree; however, we think current Western logic, which is founded on Aristotelian SOM assumptions, cripples our ability to reason well.
Logic is the method of dialectic. Dialectic is the process of arriving at the truth via dialog of logical argumentation. Dialectic resolves argument by statement of propositions which may be valued true, false, or neither.
To quote Hughes directly, "The things that are [either] true or false, at least in any sense of 'true' and 'false' with which Buridan thinks the logician should be concerned, are what he calls propositions."
Note our partial list of classes of propositions (written in SOMese) which SOM dialectic excludes:
It is extraordinary, illuminated by bright and glaring light of our above list, to consider SOM dialectic includes only:
ð (Rev. 8Dec99 PDR) In Quantonics, we talk about different types/kinds of logic. SOM's bivalent logic assumes OGT in OGC. In other words, SOM's de facto legacy logic is uni-logical or homo-logical (one or same Aristotelian logic). By comparison, MoQ, Quantonics, and quantum science are paralogical. All differ from SOM in how they view reality with many potentially omnivalent logics, in many contexts, proposing and asserting many truths. Paralogism is a dual term for sophism. So those of us who practice MoQ/Quantonic/quantum-logic are, by definition, paralogists and thus sophists. Paralogists see islands of truth, SOM being only one of many. Within a logical island of truth, local logic holds, but is subject to quantum affects of nonlocal logics. Nonlocal affects are seen, when one views them only from within a local logic, as paralogisms, and are called "paradice." Viewed from a larger paralogical perspective, paradice resolve as "many truths."
Thanks for reading,
Doug.