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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
In logic a drive rules, first of falsifying, and then of implementing a single viewpoint: logic does not originate in the will to truth.
Gist of Idea
Logic is not driven by truth, but desire for a simple single viewpoint
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 40[13])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.42
A Reaction
Presumably logic derives from a will to simplify rather than a will for truth. Ockham's Razor describes the essence of human thinking. Even if Nietzsche is right, there is still a desire that the simplified view should be true.
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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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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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Logic must falsely assume that identical cases exist
[Nietzsche]
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Logic is not driven by truth, but desire for a simple single viewpoint
[Nietzsche]
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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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10152
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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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3599
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Deduction shows entailments, not what to believe
[Williams,M]
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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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