Excess of “Logic”

Something I’ve noticed on philosophy forums is that some people have a tendency to saturate their language as much as possible with logical terms while simultaneously deciding to de-value meaning in things. I believe that they do this in order to make themselves appear more “logical” than others. But I think that it’s an entirely foolhardy practice for a number of reasons. First of all, logic does not produce true views! It does not produce meaningful views! What logic is a set of mathematical tools than can aid you in assessing the validity of complex arguments. Although the use of logic can help one to avoid making silly errors in arguments, it does not add one whit of value to the final conclusion if the premises are flawed.

The tendency to under-emphasize or deny meaning the meaningfulness of the human experience is something that I find even more disturbing. I see it as an extreme reaction against admittedly irrational nonsense. There are some out there who would see meaning where it is not, see immutable signs and symbols in the most trivial of circumstances, and condemn logic as restrictive. In reaction to such nonsense, others think that they can make themselves appear wiser than the former by acting as differently as possible from the first group, and by refusing to consider that anything has an intrinsic meaning. But where are we then? The laws of logic do not forbid one seeing a human life as a mere aggregate of chemical compounds and reactions, but if Humankind is see things as no more than that, who can object to the slaughter of another? Although we cannot build all our knowledge on perfect foundations, we must assume that some things are valuble.