Logic Doesn’t Prove
Logic is used correctly in science and often incorrectly in spirituality. A scientist knows that logic cannot be used to prove that something is true. They know their logical conclusion needs to be proved. Spiritualists all to often use logic to prove something is true. And that causes a problem. Words don’t have meaning, logic doesn’t prove. Unfortunately, that logic often convinces us and we accept it as truth. The problem is this: if you believe something is true, then you will see it as true.
Logic can only get you from A to B. Whether or not it is true depends on A being true. However logic can’t prove. There are two reasons for this:
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Premises are sometimes false and always incomplete
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The logic may be fallacious
Two invalid things spiritualists do:
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Use two words, prove one wrong, declare the other wrong
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Prove by logic
The spiritualists make at least two mistakes:
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Logic doesn’t prove.
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Confusing the solution with the equation.
A wrong answer can be arrived at by impeccable logic because of an untrue assumption. A wrong answer can be arrived at starting with true assumptions because of fallacious logic.
Premises are phenomena, reality in your mind. They are not nomena, reality out there. They are abstractions and do not account for everything.
Gravity pulls downward. So it is logical that a brick placed on a sloping wooden board will slide to the bottom. You put the brick on the board – and nothing happens! You left out friction in your list of premises.
Stand on a railroad track before an oncoming train. It is easy to prove that the train can’t be moving using Zeno’s Arrow fallacy. It is easy to prove that the train doesn’t exist using the dimensional fallacy. Soon reality intrudes and you don’t exist!
Fallacies
Logic fallacies: differential fallacy, dimensional fallacy.
What we are talking about is: the logic fallacy, or the fallacy of logic.
“One excludes all: Fallacy
I like chocolate. What, you don’t like strawberry?
Words and meaning.
Dimensional Fallacy
Everything has a dimension. One dimension is a single point, two dimensions is a line, three dimensions is an object.
A point has one dimension and can be pointed to.
A line has two dimensions. Point to any place on the line and you are pointing to the whole line.
An object has three dimensions. Point to any place on the object you are pointing to the whole object (including inside the object).
Some spiritualists point to a place on an object (an apple, a person) and say: “is that it?”. Then they play the “is it this, is it that” game, pointing to different parts of the object. And all the while committing the dimensional fallacy: not seeing that pointing anywhere on an object is pointing to the whole object.
Then they move inside the object and begin the “is it this, is it that” game again. But now they aren’t even pointing the original object!
Think of a Matruska doll. It is three dimensional, point perpendicular to it and you are pointing at it. Go inside the first doll and you are no longer see the whole doll, only the dolls inside the first.
Differential Fallacy
The philosopher Zeno told of a paradox: Achilles and the Tortoise. It says that Achilles can never catch the tortoise because no matter how small the gap between Achilles and the tortoise, the tortoise can move forward and remain ahead. But Zeno is committing the Differential Fallacy: the steps of Achilles and the tortoise are different size. When Achilles is near the tortoise, a single large step will take him past the tortoise.
Spiritualists
Many make pronouncements without proof. Sitting there in their false logic defined egos telling me I can’t sit in mine.
They make statements, pronouncements, with no logic or proof. The fish knows water. Every time it meets a cross current, it has to negotiate through it with his knowledge of it.
They use two or more words to describe something, then prove one of those words doesn’t describe the thing. Then conclude, with no validity at all, that the other words don’t apply either.
They use false logic to get you to believe.