Thanks for your response and I appreciate your comments. It is interesting the necessity of the argument. I enter this site for the stimulation of the argument. The argument is essential in the exchange of reason. The purpose of our entry into this site - the basis of acquisition of knowledge.
You ask me by what method or means do I acquire or have this "super-logic" - I do not have such but I do agree concerning George Bernard Shaw's remark, "few people think more than two or three times a year." If this is true, then Plato has an argument concerning individual freedom and the inability of the masses in making appropriate decisions.
Critical thinking is essential in legitimate debate. Coppee in his book, Elements of Logic, states:
"In this consideration another word plays a prominent part. The word which has been pressed into service, to denote the peculiar progress of great minds in the domains of Truth, is Philosophy; but even the word philosophy, adopted by a wise ancient as a more modest title than sophos (greed for wisdom) as the sages of Greece were called, has been productive of great confusion. Philosophy has been made to stand for a thousand sciences and to preside in the kingdoms of mind, morals, physics, until to be a philosopher means to pursue one of many intellectual pursuits, and Philosophy unqualified means everything and nothing.
An yes this vague and inexact term, Philosophy, is the one which has been most frequently confounded with Logic, and a want of clear definition and of a just understanding in the dispute, has led to the production of abominable, distorted, and monstrous systems, both of Philosophy and Logic.
For this purpose, let us agree to regard Philosophy as the investigation of truth, as to it subject-matter, the process of finding materials and of classifying and aggregating observations and experiments, and Logic, as the simple reasoning process by which we pass from truth to truth already found, and by which we guard against false argument in such a passage. Therefore, Logic is in a great degree arbitrary and that we should not attain to an understanding of the subject, if we followed, even remotely, the etymology of the word, we repeat that Logic has to do neither with the words themselves – except as they are arranged into propositions and arguments – nor with their meanings, except as related to reasoning. In general terms then, we may state a definition of the term. Logic is the Science and the Art of Reasoning."
Therefore, please forgive me in the desire for the debate and an honest consideration of reason - the argument.
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