Logic is a process that is usually run using facts but not necessarily. Facts are constructed from evidence or authority. Discovering what is acceptable evidence requires reasoning. Reasoning is a weighing process which includes salience. Salience (what’s worth paying attention to) can come from many sources.
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What I used in the above paragraph is rhetoric or “convincing words”.
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For you to decide on whether what I said is valid or not, requires you to react. You can react using reasoning, which includes an emotional “push” – the salience, along with weighing the “reasonableness” of my statements, or via a simpler, visceral reaction of “I don’t like that” or “I like that”, which I think of as a faster process as it’s “gut”, but it’s harder to explain than reasoning.
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Logic plays a role in this process but I don’t think it’s foundational. But it’s important.
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Oh, I’m glad you did. I wasn’t aware I had all of that “in me” until I reacted to what you wrote.
I don’t know if it’s my opinions or from study. It’s my words and it’s factual to the best of my knowledge. But it could also be my opinion.
I don’t know how to tell the difference myself.
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External Confirmation Score: 1.
The road to objective facts.
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