how can logic help in atainment of truth?

Question

all about logic with respect to truth

Answer 1

Logic can help to attain truth, if the truth is logical, i.e in a mathematics question. But to attain truth to whether some one was lying or not, would require more then pure logic, it would require reasoning and deduction but not necessarily logic.

Remember that logic can be not only a guide but also a false prophet. One can build towers of arguments that are logical but incorrect. A person suffering from jealousy can built logical arguments as to why their loved one is cheating on them. But those arguments can also be incorrect.

In short, yes logic can help, but because it is logical does not mean it is correct.

Answer 2

Logic allows information to be selected.
With that selection you will be able to discard the fiction, again through a logical process.
The remaining information would then be assesed as to what is false statements - but you could only conclude on information you previously know. If you conclude on information that you have been told about (for example if someone said to you that the bible stories were true - where it is plain that they are just poor fiction) then the likelihood of an incorrect conclusion will almost certainly come about.

You need Logic and Fact to attain truth. Act on fiction or lies and you are doomed in your conclusion

Answer 3

Assuming that you are using the physical logic your senses have gathered, you can't.

Using Descartes logic, you have to destroy your physical attachments in order to become a purely mental being, because your sense might be tricking you. This is the best way to atain truth through logic, because you will be more open to true knowledge.

Answer 4

good question. Logic is used to derrive conceptions of the truth. If I believed this is an intelligent question, since you asked the question, logically I would have to believe that you are also intelligent.

The problems come up when you think about logical flaws, and that's where you need reasonable proof to assert your claims. The more solid your reasonings are, the closer you come to truth.

Answer 5

It can help as a starting point, but truth in itself is a whole book of content... I think that the two are linked very loosely if at all linked! Truth varies between every human being and because of this if there is an absolute truth (which i doubt there can be with so many contrasts in opinion and beliefs!) Maybe we will never find it!

Answer 6

As a formal science, logic investigates and classifies the structure of statements and arguments, both through the study of formal systems of inference and through the study of arguments in natural language. The scope of logic is therefore large, ranging from core topics such as the study of fallacies and paradoxes, to specialized analysis of reasoning using probability and to arguments involving causality. Logic is also commonly used today in argumentation theory.
What more you want to find out the "truth" ?

Answer 7

I don't see all things as being logical, if that is true then a, b, c then should be d, would be just that if we were going alphabetically, but most of the time psychiatry tells us that a,b, next comes d and the c doesn't matter. They have no truth in this theory and it does matter.

Answer 8

I have a saying ... The serenity of logic is very reasurring. I just came out with it one day and when a colleague asked me to explain I said that for instance, it is not my problem if someone has a problem with me. I know what my faults are and accept them. Logically, I will always have faults for no-one is perfect therefore I do not get upset when they are pointed out to me. When in the persuit of truth, you must have logic at the forefront of your mind.

Answer 9

Logic has long been held, at least by anglo-american (or analytic) philosophy, as the only certain path to truth.

Unfortunately, logic is a structure of human thought, and it's correspondence to nature can only certainly be said to correspond to our PERCEPTION of nature..

So it can't help in attainment of ultimate truth, it can however reliably give us relative truths

Answer 10

You assume truth can be attained!

In order to attain truth you would need to apply logically deduced evidence to identify the answers that demonstrate the truth!

If your evidence were to be based on illogical deductions...the answers would also be illogical and therefore not the truth!

Unless?.....the truth is not logical??????!!!!!!!!!!

If the truth is not logical then logic can be of no assistance in your enquiry unless you wish to find the truth through a protracted method of discarding the untruths first!...Phew!!!