Logic

Logic is a tern that has been used to refer to making correlative constructions between concepts."The napkin was on the table last I checked. Now it's on the floor. I felt a gust of wind in the interim. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume the wind blew the napkin off the table."The above statement is both logically fallacious and epistemically sound. Logic students tend to assume the existence of a fallacy in the reasoning negates the validity of the conclusion. This is only true in metaphysical deduction such as math, but not in empirical induction.--- Zachary Miller, 2020[1]
=== Etymology ===
logic (n.) mid-14c., logike, "branch of philosophy that treats of forms of thinking, science of distinction of true from false reasoning," from Old French logique (13c.), from Latin (ars) logica "logic," from Greek (he) logike (techne) "(the) reasoning (art)," from fem. of logikos "pertaining to speaking or reasoning" (also "of or pertaining to speech"), from logos "reason, idea, word" (see Logos).For logic is the most useful tool of all the arts. Without it no science can be fully known. It is not worn out by repeated use, after the manner of material tools, but rather admits of continual growth through the diligent exercise of any other science. For just as a mechanic who lacks a complete knowledge of his tool gains a fuller [knowledge] by using it, so one who is educated in the firm principles of logic, while he painstakingly devotes his labor to the other sciences, acquires at the same time a greater skill at this art.— Ockham, “Prefatory Letter” to his Summa of Logic
“Logic takes its rise, not from an interest – in the facts of nature,
 nor from a need to grasp [hidden] cause connexions, but from an
urge to understand the basis, or essence, of everything empirical. 
Not, however, as if to this end, we had to hunt out new facts; it is,
rather, the essence of our Investigation that we do not seek to learn 
anything new by it. We want to understand something that is already 
in plain view. For this is what we seem, in some sense, not to understand. 
We feel as if we had to penetrate phenomena: our investigation, however, 
is directed, not towards phenomena, but, as one might say,
 towards the ‘possibilities‘ of phenomena.“ 
Ludwig Wittgenstein
== Rhizomata ==
Truth; Philosophy; Logos; Argument; Argumentation
Reason; Reasoning; Ratiocination; Rationality; Logicality; Logism;
Pseudo-intellectualism
Category:Fields of study
Category:LOGIC