‘The discovery of logic was enormous. It changed civilization. It also equipped professional deceivers with a new level of understanding about their own mind-bending work. Today, the investigator needs a knowledge of logic as never before. He also needs to engage in a process of analysis that incorporates more than the stark rules Aristotle once laid down. He needs to know logic’s first cousins…’ (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
This article has two parts. To fully understand what I’m discussing, both parts are essential.
Part One:
Twenty-four-hundred years ago, in the ancient city of Athens, something unprecedented happened.
Three men changed the course of the world by introducing the discipline of logic: Socrates, Plato, and finally, Arisotle, who codified the principles of reasoning in The Organon.
Since then, all the way up the present day, mathematicians and philosophers have added to that store of knowledge, through intensive research.
In many countries, logic used to be an integral part of secondary education. It was often presented as a series of fallacies or errors one needed to avoid while thinking through a problem or assessing an argument.
Now, however, like the dinosaur, it has disappeared.
This post was published at Jon Rappoport on November 25, 2015.
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