Speakpigeon
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- Rationality (i.e. facts + logic), Scepticism (not just about God but also everything beyond my subjective experience)
So, symbolic logic certainly helps but is it really necessary?
Formal logic is very convenient and helpful, but is it is ever necessary?
Necessary for what?
That's what I'm asking.
"Is it is ever necessary?" You know or you don't. If you know, just give at least one relevant example. No big deal.
You seem to have built up a straw man in your mind over what everyone thinks logic is good for. I don't think that I'm the only commentator here with that impression. Everyone else seems to have trouble grasping your implicit sense of necessity.
I would survive if you just replied as you usually would just using your own notion of necessity.
I'm also open to the idea that I'm wrong as to how much people think formal logic is necessary. No problem. I'm asking a simple question. No need to go ballistic about that.
Logic is a method for calculating truth consistency across a set of propositions. There are important applications for that in mathematics, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, and a host of other fields of study that require precise calculations. These are far from "trivial logical relations".
That's what I would love to see literal examples of. It's one thing to talk about it, it's another to exhibit actual samples. And actual examples is what I asked for in the OP:
So, I'm looking for examples you'd be aware of where modern logic is used for practical applications, and beyond the basics.
Either you think you have them or ou don't.
EB