Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Origin of Logic

There have been two main theories of the origin of 'Language'--1. It is the medium of biological, intra-species communication, or 2. It is a supernatural visitation into otherwise isolated, perhaps inert, entitities.  Correspondingly, there have been two main theories of the origin of 'Logic'--1. It is an abstraction from some patterns of 'Language', or 2. It is the supernatural, pre-Christian, Logos itself.  Now, what is often conceived as 'Logic' in contemporary Philosophy, e. g. 'Predicate Logic', conflates the two theories.  For, while it generally functions as a useful tool, e. g. to expose and clear up misleading 'ordinary Language', it is frequently simultaneously revered as sacrosanct, e. g. when it is touted as the 'essence of Philosophy'.  The resort to a Meta-language is a common response to the former being turned on the latter, i. e. to the tool being turned on the premises of its usage.

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