| Re: Is logic world dependent or not? |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Sep 6, 2008 05:54
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:31:29 +0100, John Jones wrote:
> But if it is a 'conceptual' clarity that we seek to promote in logic
> then this cannot be guaranteed by either formalism or by generalising
> particular cases; we are left to wonder precisely how such clarity could
> be achieved. But then such a means, if it existed, would make logic a
> priori and not a posteriori. So until such a means is given a name and a
> description, let us leave it the way I started out and say that logic is
> a posteriori - world dependent.
Conceptual clarity is usually attached to the physical, I think.
'Action' is a means by which clarity develops. Clarity, in relative
terms, then is directly proportional to the physical or that which is
thought different from thought. Mind as opposed to matter, as the
possibly very mistaken saying goes.
I don't get the "priori and not a posteriori" question exactly. If an
example where given, it would help me out anyway.
Logic seems to be an attribute of process. Shoving it off as being purely
'mental' as opposed to something purely 'physical', at least on
alt.philosophy, seems incorrect but a position without a logical
foundation YET. One bond of mind/logic to matter, which would open a
crack in this a priori/a posteriori duality, is the electronic process
contained in thinking.
The persistent question of which comes first or what is real, "the
thought about a thing or the thing thought about" is suddenly fuzzy and
much more interesting. If the 'external' world is a physical part of the
internal world of logic, logic then would be a form following the
function of all that it processes as are all other 'external' forms.
If nothing else there is a magnificent beauty in this idea. It certainly
is a grand unifying theory, logic.
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