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Chapter Two, Part Twelve: Can Civilization Survive Another Three Thousand Years of Judgmental Logic?
Judgmental laws of logic are at work in our everyday lives on a scale that dwarfs the effects of even laws of mathematics. The effects of mathematical laws, for example, are in most every manmade product, from the family car to the ink used to print these words. Our laws of logic, however, act as the standards for what we think is reasonable or pure nonsense, morally, socially, sexually, politically, economically, and even mathematically. Without laws of logic, civilization would not exist.
Philosopher Francis Bacon and many others, however, have recognized that our present laws of logic are judgmental and can, therefore, harm rather than help us.
“The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions, than to help to search out the truth. So it does more harm than good.”
The new sciences have also revealed that our logic cannot describe certain natural phenomena. To understand all the facts of nature, we need, as scientist Wolfgang Pauli said, a “new conception of reality,” one which accepts the “irrationality of rationality.” Or, as I would say, a new conception of reality not limited to traditional laws of logic.