Logician

Aristotelian traditions distinguish between sound arguments, that's valid reasoning, plus true premises and unsound arguments, which contain errors but may accidentally reach true conclusions.

Scholars like John Stuart Mill, later informal logisticians, Logicians, not logisticians.

Logisticians move boxes.

Logicians think about logic.

They highlighted errors in everyday reasoning, including misuse of fallacy identification.

So this is especially relevant in debate culture, political rhetoric, and Internet discourse, where people will point out a fallacy as an attempt to have a debate ending move.

And I did really like, as I say, I did really like the way that they did the Cyclops in the movie.

But given that I'm a logician, I want to explain the logical...

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Yes, I did say that I was a logician once to a prison class that I was teaching.

And if they are not so disposed, they are no more entitled to be called poetry than a bale of canvas and a box of colors is to be called a painting.

Logicians may reason about abstractions, but the great mass of men must have images.

The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

The first inhabitants of Greece, there is reason to believe, worshipped one invisible deity.

The inhabitants of Monstrator and Elvira were primitives, I think, at the time of their occasional visits to this earth, though of course in a quasi-existence anything that we semi-phantoms call evidence of anything may be just as good evidence of anything else.

Logicians and detectives and jurymen and suspicious wives and members of the Royal Astronomic Society recognize this indeterminateness, but have the delusion that in the method of agreement there is final or real evidence.

The method is good enough for an existence that is only semi-real, but also it is the method of reasoning by which witches were burned and by which ghosts have been feared.

I'd not like to be so unadvanced as to deny witches and ghosts, but I do think that there never have been witches and ghosts like those of popular supposition.

I mean, it reminds me, of course, of the genetic fallacy.

Logicians might talk about this.

Like the origin of something.

The origin of a claim, for example, has nothing to do with the truth value of that claim.

It may be asked, what, then, has this to do with the grave questions of religion, and on what ground opposition should be offered to the methods of logic? The objector, it will be said, can only inspire the logician with an unfavorable opinion of the intelligence and faith of his adversary, since the latter's faith seems to be based upon such objections.

But, it must be admitted, logic is liable to abuse.

Logicians demand in reasoning certain conditions which lead to absolute certainty that but when they touch on religious questions, they can no longer postulate these conditions, and ought therefore to relax their habitual rigor.

It happens accordingly that a student who is enamored of the individual methods of logic, hearing his teachers accused of irreligion, believes that this irreligion reposes on proofs as strong as those of logic, and immediately, without attempting the study of metaphysics, shares their mistake.

This is a serious disadvantage arising from the study of logic.

It may be asked, what, then, has this to do with the grave questions of religion, and on what ground opposition should be offered to the methods of logic? The objector, it will be said, can only inspire the logician with an unfavorable opinion of the intelligence and faith of his adversary, since the latter's faith seems to be based upon such objections.

But, it must be admitted, logic is liable to abuse.

Logicians demand in reasoning certain conditions which lead to absolute certainty that but when they touch on religious questions, they can no longer postulate these conditions, and ought therefore to relax their habitual rigor.

It happens accordingly that a student who is enamored of the individual methods of logic, hearing his teachers accused of irreligion, believes that this irreligion reposes on proofs as strong as those of logic, and immediately, without attempting the study of metaphysics, shares their mistake.

This is a serious disadvantage arising from the study of logic.

It may be asked, what, then, has this to do with the grave questions of religion, and on what ground opposition should be offered to the methods of logic? The objector, it will be said, can only inspire the logician with an unfavorable opinion of the intelligence and faith of his adversary, since the latter's faith seems to be based upon such objections.

But, it must be admitted, logic is liable to abuse.

Logicians demand in reasoning certain conditions which lead to absolute certainty that but when they touch on religious questions they can no longer postulate these conditions and ought therefore to relax their habitual rigor it happens accordingly that a student who is enamored of the individual methods of logic hearing his teachers accused of irreligion believes that this irreligion reposes on proofs as strong as those of logic and immediately without attempting the study of metaphysics, shares their mistake.

This is a serious disadvantage arising from the study of logic.

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