Logic: essence of the universe or construct of human rationality?

Answer 1

Columbus did not create America. He sailed into it.

This is the human experience of logic.

Human logic is a response to Universal logic, not it's source.
Also, like Columbus, there's no guarantee we are where we think we are.

Answer 2

Logic is the use of symbolic constructs to describe the universe. Without human rationality there are no symbolic constructs, the universe just is what it is. Therefore logic is a construct of human rationality.

Answer 3

Formal deductive logics, which are symbols manipulated by agreed rules and methods, are constructs of human reasoning. Self-Conscious Humans with language ability and imagination developed such logics. Informal inductive logics also uses symbols to describe and predict the rules and regularities we observe in the universe we inhabit. We refer to those rules as natural laws and we use the rules of the "scientific method" to discover and understand what those natural laws are.The scientific method is another construct of the human intellect, but the laws of nature are what they are with or without us. We have free will which combined with our ability to use symbols, empowers us to understand and to some degree harness nature's laws in unique ways. That reasoned understanding is evolving in uncertain ways at the moment bec many do not see past the material dimensions and have little faith in the intellectual powers of human beings.

Wonderful Q! Many good A's. Ignore the naughty "eristical" short-sighted A's & the anonymous brainless dwarves posting thumbs down votes. Good luck picking the BA.

Answer 4

how rational is it for a large fish to devour a small fish and for a more advantageous fish etc .... isn't it logical for the tremendous fish to devour the little ones to regulate their numbers etc , if this order did not ensue issues in that equipment would immediately over populate and visit pot in a unmarried existence cycle . so if one is relative to the different and is in result reliant on the different would that no longer then be their order of issues . if so , and the order of the sea is disrupted circuitously , would not it stand to reason then that the something relative the sea can be effected etc........ and if my reasoning is basically stunning and is the concept for rational and systematic software of the total equipment of issues is that no longer mathematics at paintings . in spite of the indisputable fact that , is an apple an apple , apples or a tree , timber from an analogous apple or is it yet another equipment ,platforms . bye , bye

Answer 5

The simple answer -
Both.

A certain amount of logic is dictated by the universe - it wouldn't do (in obvious, physical and/or material terms) what isn't logical. Another part of logic comes from our need to control everything around us (to some extent or another) so we can live our daily lives and not go mad from it.

Case in point: the weather channel.
We can't control the weather, so why have a system predicting it? It's just as erratic as anything else we're subjected to but we feel that if it rains this day or that, we can do things indoors and when it's warm and dry outside, then we can do the things we love so much.
Maybe it's a bad example but it's true.

Would you say a person can survive without the slightest bit of logic? There's always an exception to the rule but, in this case, I think not. That's why so many people go crazy or have mental disorders. (Not the ONLY reason why, mind you, just a very big one.)
In my humble opinion...

Answer 6

Construct. The only logic the universe has is what we can assign to it as part of our comprehension of the cosmos, whose rules are "perceived" or "conceived" as logical within the thought processes. We make logic out of natural laws, or we cannot understand them. When we get new data, we can change our logic.

Answer 7

Call logic a reflection of the essence of the universe. It is our best understanding so far. Humans have developed logic because of something that can be understood about the world -- we are not imposing this on the world.

Those who assert the world is all chaos are hopeless, that is they are without hope.

Answer 8

"Man is born tabula rasa; all his knowledge is based on and derived from the evidence of his senses. To reach the distinctively human level of cognition, man must conceptualize his perceptual data—and conceptualization is a process which is neither automatic nor infallible. Man needs to discover a method to guide this process, if it is to yield conclusions which correspond to the facts of reality—i.e., which represent knowledge. The principle at the base of the proper method is the fundamental principle of metaphysics: the Law of Identity. In reality, contradictions cannot exist; in a cognitive process, a contradiction is the proof of an error. Hence the method man must follow: to identify the facts he observes, in a non-contradictory manner. This method is logic—"the art of non-contradictory identification." (Atlas Shrugged.) Logic must be employed at every step of a man's conceptual development, from the formation of his first concepts to the discovery of the most complex scientific laws and theories. Only when a conclusion is based on a noncontradictory identification and integration of all the evidence available at a given time, can it qualify as knowledge."

Answer 9

Definitely the construct of human rationality. The universe is chaos. We attempt to rationalize it with words and ideas but that is limiting.

Answer 10

Harmony of the spheres: : sense of/in particulars.