Logic, What is That?

Dictionary wala gives it as Science of formal principle of reasoning. Then the next logical step would be to define What is formal, what is reasoning. These two definition would really suffice.

Theoritically speaking we do have to think on all other words. But the idea is better not to think in words rather than to think in conceptual terms. This is because usually word limits the meaning. This meaning that what we mean might be more than what the word means. Of course if your vocabulary is good enough. You do get as near as possible but that may not be near enough.

So formal refers to the existing structure. This means that how the reasoning is structered, in most cases it is causal that is a cause is followed by an effect. Ohk then reasoning would be what is the result of a rational thought, basically these two words are related. It could be said to be something which is intelligible but it doesnot really suffice. But we will live it there.

Logic as we have seen has a structure, this means that from one statement you can go to another using this structure. That is what i have done in the above example. Some of it might seem really tedious and akin to shadowboxing. But we can always work around these intangibles. It might require a lot of effort to consciously ask these type of questions at the start. But once you start doing that it really gives a satisfaction which you will have to experience to know it.
Ok So how do we approach an intangible. This could be done by various ways the best and the most useful way might be Jootsing (From Douglas Hofstadter). This means simply Jumping Out Of the System. That is we can view the problem outside the system and try to find the soln. Thats all for today.