Today, it is widely assumed that there is no structure of thinking that is worth studying. And perhaps that explains why serious thinking is so rare. It is nothing short of astonishing that most people go all the way through school with no exposure to logic at all.
It was not always this way. Logic used to be a key component liberal education: it was part of the classic “trivium”. The School of Salamanca used scholastic logic to give birth to economic theory. Even after scholasticism was unfairly discredited, logic was still widely studied by schoolboys throughout the west. The Austrian School used logic to rigorize and advance economic science. However, the rise of positivism rang the death knell for the widespread study of logic.
If one starts with true premises, and reasons correctly, the conclusion will be true also.
So when we study logic what sort of data do we use to evaluate things? Qualitative, reasoning, empirical data or our own opinion? Isn’t it possible that logic can be biased with our own opinion? Also people have their own logical explanations to things, does that mean my logic is different then your logic?
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