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Mazzie Daius
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What the? If there were no intuitive feel of logic then we wouldnt have the formal version of logic at all.
We do have a very intuitive ground for making deductions.
Excellent. You reacted to my assertion. Now that's a feeling response if ever. Intuition for logic, on the other hand, is not mere feeling reaction at all.
Clearly we are behaviorally organized as approximations to that we experience. However, an intuition of logic requires consciousness to be articulated, something we rarely do, except for some swearing, in unthinking reaction to what we process from the world. Clearly intuition is a conscious product, one related to a reflex only by conscious experience, which I will insist is not either reaction or involuntary feeling. Its sits there with old wives wisdom, common sense, and other largely automated by nearly unanimous previous outcome experiences individually learned or having been drummed into our heads before we could talk. Intuition is never reflexively generated.
Now as to whether it is necessary for such an articulated experience as a basis for logic is also in doubt. The scientific process actually is designed to minimize contamination of observation with such as gut feeling or intuition. Science arose along with our natrivistic, feeling based, experience. However, feelings need need to be neutralized if we were to actually objectively understand the world about us so scientific thinking stands opposed to nativist thinking, not as arising from it.
So while it may comfort you to believe logic arose from instinct or feeling, it clearly doesn't except as folk this or folk that.
The distinction between rational deduction (folk whatever) is as wide and bright linedly different from scientific deduction as I can imagine.
As far as I can tell Speakpigeon confuses rational processes with scientific processes to arrive at his science of logic.