Sunday, January 10, 2010

Quote "B" Response

Benjamin Jowett says that "Logic is neither a science or an art, but a dodge". In today's world, people would like to get things accomplished as fast as possible. Thats where logic comes in. There are a lot of people that use logic to get out of situations that doesn't require a lot of time yet effective. If you wake up from bed and you eat breakfast, and the next thing you know you have leave to go to school. Your mom tells you that you have to make up your bed. Most people won't don't because it will take time and you don't want to be late for school. So you use logic and by telling your mom that you will do it when you get home. You don't want to take the time to make up your bed. Although logic analyzes states and does not evaluate the validity of those statements and what science does is trying to show the proof behind theories with reasoning. There are some people that actually want to know how things are done and there will probably some people that will stay after the bell rings just to figure out how the math problem is done even if they are late. But lets be real, most people don't want to go through that entire process because it will take too much time. Thats why people use simple logic to get out of situations that doesn't allow them to take too much time. That proves Jowett's statement of how logic is a "dodge".

3 comments:

  1. I like your explanation of how people want to use logic in its most simple and easy form, and I agree most people don't want to make their bed. It's an interesting example, and I think it's a good argument for how logic is in fact a dodge. However, there seems to be a contradiction on your opinion that it is not a science or an art, but its used as a dodge? I could be wrong...

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  2. I also liked your explanation. After reading B. Jowett's quote, I was unsure of what he met by saying that logic is "neither a sciene nor an art." But now I agree that science is as you said, "trying to show the proof behind theories with reasoning." And that logic just argues that something is valid not why it is so.

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  3. The first time I read the Jowett's quote I honestly had no idea what he was talking about -- this is such a good example, and I completely agree. Logic isn't science because the only explanation for it is "it's logical...", and it's not art because it does not provide an abstract answer or way of thinking [<-- that's my immediate definition of art]. Logic dodges the explanation behind the validity of something, which is exactly what you, and Jowett are saying

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