Importance of Logic

Serena Cuoghi
Title of Professor of Biology

Logic has two general aspects from which it can be assumed: the first as a mental ability that allows the analysis and interpretation of phenomena as a natural reasoning, serving as a guide in making the most complex decisions, and secondly, as a methodological tool inherited from philosophy, on which support the various scientific areas for a more reliable assessment of the information, guiding us towards the objective search for the most coherent options that bring us closer to the correct answers.

A natural order for the whole

There is a universal language capable of allowing us to interpret all types of phenomena and, in turn, of facilitating a large part of their understanding through mathematical logic, another great ability of thought that has allowed us the development of almost all existing scientific knowledge, hence its so considered importance for all educational systems of the last centuries, through which the teaching of mathematics is a priority fact in the attempt to stimulate from the earliest age the highest degree of development possible of logic in people and its subsequent applicability in other areas of study, becoming an indispensable resource in fields such as science itself, engineering, and even programming, by needing to be able to deduce, until being able to replicate, the logical order in which the various processes must be established to obtain the expected results.

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In the same way, establishing a logical criterion in the development of the investigations allows the possibility of evaluating from the very meaning of the hypotheses. to each of the data obtained, in order to find the most coherent and consistent interpretations possible, thus directing researchers towards the development of more objective conclusions through a more assertive discernment, which is based on the comparison of the results obtained with the realities of the phenomena that could be linked, in which case a comparative logic would be applied, while assuming the made by discarding the logically unfeasible towards the potentially feasible is an approach to reality that belongs rather to a logical deductive.

Often, both strategies guide us, even without further training or academic purpose; It is enough to think about the way in which we assume the making of the various important decisions throughout our lives, to realize that logic always accompanies us in these events, however, some behaviors could well be branded as illogical at any given time, obeying this to two essential factors: 1) either the proceeding outside of all logic is carried out by someone with an altered mental pattern, the product of some mental disorder that affects said natural function of our mind, as occurs for example with bipolar disorder or obsessive disorder compulsive; or 2) the very context of logic according to the reality with which a person assumes a fact, on the contrary, differs from that of the person who could be. observing, as, for example, it is logical for the members of the aboriginal tribes to carry out rituals in which the elements of nature are venerated by provide them with everything they need, while for people in modern cities this is a fact that makes no sense if it were done within a Supermarket.

Make things simpler

The use of logic to deduce the because of things, even the simplest and most everyday, has its notable advantages, especially when carrying out tasks that require a mechanical process, such as cleaning the home and organizing spaces, tasks that seem to be unimportant and that we usually carry out without much analysis, however, the realization of said activities under a logical criterion, allows reaching optimal levels for the use of both time and space and resources, facilitating in itself the process, but also allowing to confer an organizational character to the space, which can help to improve the performance of the other activities that are carried out in the same area.

Developing ourselves with a logical feeling in life also allows us to achieve a more coherent performance in everything we set out to do, which translates into a greater efficiency and effectiveness, personal qualities always highly valued when considering applying for a job or joining a team job.

Transformation of logic as a scientific discipline over time

We define logic as the Formal Science whose object of study is the different beginning of demonstration that allow verifying that an affirmation can be considered as valid, deriving from the old word Logike, which was used to refer to everyone who has intellect, reason, dialectic and arguments, in turn coming from this word Logos, which is relative to ideas, arguments, reasons and words themselves.

The methodology The work of logic consists in the examination of the validity or invalidity, applying a systematization in the arguments, analyzing therefore its structure, regardless of the content of what has been argued, as well as the language used and the state of reality of the content, for which reason it is considered as a formal science.

Originally, it was a science derived from the Philosophy, but with its development at the end of the 19th century it was removed from it, being considered due to its symbolic formalization as a discipline much more akin to mathTherefore, in many epistemological analyzes it is taken into account as a mathematical logic.

With the arrival of the 20th century, this science began to be considered mainly as a symbolic logic, using inference rules and replacing the different assertions by simple assignments of symbols, for which reason it was later applied to the bases of computer science, having a structure merely of logical science since then. so.

Another way that we can apply the concept of logic is in everyday life, when talking about logical thinking, or the use of logical reactions or terms, being inherent to it, what is related to tradition and culture, or taking into account the context of a specific event in order to provide a coherent statement or a reaction related to said event. around. That is why this concept is used as a sociological or cultural question, having this sense a relationship pragmatic, around a specific function that allows an analysis of effectiveness in a relationship of stimulus-response.

References

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