Single Parent Logic

I’m taking a course in Logic for a Philosophy degree I’m working on. Prior to my class, I never heard of Logic other than from Star Trek. Judging by the size of the class and the same general response when they were asked the question, “Have you ever heard of logic?” I’m judging much other people outside the science or mathematics world know as little as I do. Logic is different. It’s a different way of deriving to conclusions to commonalities in our everyday lives – at least that is how I’m seeing it. I’ll give you an example that helped me instantly.

Normally, if I were in a store near a university hospital, for example, and I spotted a young person dressed in scrubs shopping and someone asked me if that person was a pre-med student I would say, “Maybe, that assumption could be made and it seems logical.” We’re guessing. That person could be a lab tech or a nurse or a physician or just came from a friend’s birth? Who knows? Logic has another way of coming to sound conclusions. Here’s a Logic example.

Helen is a physician. So Helen went to medical school, since all physicians have gone to medical school; is an argument; the truth of its conclusion, “Helen went to medical school,” is inferentially derived from its premises, “Helen is a physician.” and “All physicians have gone to medical school.” – The discipline of logic as stated from Arguments and Inference.

Don’t let word phrases like “inferentially derived from its premises” through you for a loop. It does it to everyone; it means the conclusion is sound. There is no other way to become a physician in the U.S. than to have gone to medical school. Helen is a physician. All physicians went to medical school. Therefore Helen went to medical school. The argument is valid and sound. It’s undisputable. Logic has me intrigued and I think I’m hooked. This one class has me thinking about single parent logic.

How sound is that? Let’s see. I am a single parent. All single parents were once in mind-numbing marriages and unhappy. Therefore I’m happy and enlightened. The argument is valid and sound – it’s undisputable.

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