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[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic
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Full Idea
Logic teaches us how to order and connect our thoughts.
Gist of Idea
Logic teaches us how to order and connect our thoughts
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 3.10)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.343
A Reaction
Leibniz had a higher opinion of logic than contemporaries like Locke. The question is whether logic can actually teach us better order than we could otherwise manage, or whether it just describes what most thinkers do.
The
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[relative importance of logic in life and reason]:
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Logicians acknowledge too few things, while others acknowledge too many
[Fitzralph]
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12992
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Logic teaches us how to order and connect our thoughts
[Leibniz]
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Logic gives us the necessary rules which show us how we ought to think
[Kant]
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Only study logic if you think your own reasoning is deficient
[Peirce]
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7188
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Logic tries to understand the world according to a man-made scheme
[Nietzsche]
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7145
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Logic is not driven by truth, but desire for a simple single viewpoint
[Nietzsche]
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7144
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Logic must falsely assume that identical cases exist
[Nietzsche]
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16867
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Logic not only proves things, but also reveals logical relations between them
[Frege]
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Logic is just slavery to language
[Nietzsche]
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9179
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Frege frequently expressed a contempt for language
[Frege, by Dummett]
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21588
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Logic gives the method of research in philosophy
[Russell]
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6107
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It is logic, not metaphysics, that is fundamental to philosophy
[Russell]
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Set theory and logic are fairy tales, but still worth studying
[Tarski]
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Wittgenstein is right that logic is just tautologies
[Wittgenstein, by Russell]
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Maybe logical truth reflects reality, but in different ways in different languages
[Quine]
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9244
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Logic is easy, but what about logic to the point of death?
[Camus]
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Logic has an infantile idea of philosophy
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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Logic hates philosophy, and wishes to supplant it
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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Given that thinking aims at truth, logic gives universal rules for how to do it
[Burge]
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Deduction shows entailments, not what to believe
[Williams,M]
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13378
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It is a mistake to think that the logic developed for mathematics can clarify language and philosophy
[Jubien]
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6858
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Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in
[Williamson]
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Logic guides thinking, but it isn't a substitute for it
[Rumfitt]
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