Is not philosophy just another term for logic?

Answer 1

I'll quote one of my philosophy professors from about a thousand years ago: "Philosophy is the search for answers to questions which often have no (definitive) answer(s), but to which some answer(s) must be assumed in order to get on with the business of living."

Logic is but one part of a wide, wide field of fundemental philosophical inquiry.

Answer 2

No. Logic is just one of the tools philosophy uses in its quest for understanding.
A philosophy that doesn't go out into the real world to try to explain man's place in the Universe is not much of a philosophy. But unlike mystical endeavors, philosophy is partial to reason. So it uses reason and logic to make sense of the world, but logic is not its final end.

Answer 3

Philosophy is a term to think logically about something and the study of logic.

Answer 4

Depends on how you view the two. Logic is what one would consider the progression of thought to reach a conclusion that makes sense. Now, while philosophy does something somewhat like that, it is usually more of people asking why something is the way it is, or why it does what it does, and using logic to explain why they view it the way they do, or at least what they call logic.

Answer 5

No. Logic is a part of philosophy. But there is a lot of philosophy that is not logical at all. Philosophy can vary from mere opinion to highly structured mathematical propositions. Logic is a series of propositions from which each proposition follows from the previous proposition. This is rather a circular definition, but It is the best I can define it. Hope this helps.

Answer 6

No. Logic is an area of Philosophy. But the two names are interchangeable.

Answer 7

to agree would be to disgegard the wonderful com[plexity and colour of language.

On the simplest level they to broadly describe sustems of though or reasoning but logic is cold, lifeless, inorganic and rigid, philosophy is rich complex warm and nebulous. You cant have an intersting debate in the pub over Boolean logic but you can over Catersian doubt.

Answer 8

On the contrary, Nieztche once said that philosophy is logically stating everything that we instinctively feel or think; while logic, pure logic, has only one 'path'.

Answer 9

Logic is formal. It cannot generate its own premises, nor can it give us knowledge about the world from which to move from validity (a priory) to truth (a posteriori). So philosophy is the larger field that uses the tools of logic to structure itself.

Answer 10

Logic critical and rational thinking are all parts of philosophy.