logic

LOGIC

THE ORDER OF COMMON THOUGHT. All men have a "mindset" shaped by their social status and membership of a particular group in society or a particular social class.

All men have "value systems" that determine what they value and establish a hierarchy among the various values. All men "see things" differently by the sufferer, for whom the succor, pro who investigates the causes to eradicate or who used politically.

This "mindset", "value" and "view" that men have is what sets his "ideology." Ideology we mean by "a system of ideas, values ​​and beliefs of a group of individuals in society, which shapes the way they act in the same society."

Ideologies empirical and theoretical. Ideologies may be of two kinds:

a) empirical ideologies.
b) theoretical ideologies.

Empirical ideologies are those that occur in all men as an "interpretation of their life situation that is manifested in the mode of action of each person." This type of empirical ideology often due to a "world view" or "world view", which can be: practical, technical, mythic, scientific, religious, etc.

ABSTRACTION. Every thing is really a "structure function" more or less complex than it has to be considered in its entirety to the reality "divide" in a series of smaller parts that do not do justice to the structure of reality. This means that the man knows things "abstracting".

Mean by "abstraction" one of the facets or forms of human knowledge consists of mental separation of various properties of objects and their relationships with delimitation or dismemberment of a particular property or relation, "that the human mind wants to include an element or aspect of the reality of an object.

That is, to understand the rationality of man, for example, has "waived" his affection, its materiality, its vital organization, etc., But, once we have understood one aspect of the structure of an object must turn to the overall structure for n distort the knowledge of the object. The hardest thing is therefore to move from the abstract (which allows knowledge) to the concrete (allowing the action.)

WHAT IS FORMAL LOGIC. Applying this form of human knowledge to thought itself, when the mind tries to understand the "form or structure of thought" without reference to any particular thought, we have "formal logic." Formal logic is, as defined by Kant, science "of the necessary laws of understanding and reason in general, or whatever it is, the simple way of thinking in general.

FORMAL LOGIC AND REALITY. From this point of view, formal logic puts the thought in terms of "pure thought", since it considers only the "order" of the thought without any reference to the content or subject of thought.

The great danger of formal logic (the danger she has often fallen into the history of logic) is to stay at that level of "pure thought" and pretend that this thought (which has been "separated" from reality pro through "abstraction") is reality itself.

In response to the above, we clarify that formal logic refers to the "validity" of thought, while the theoretical knowledge concerning the "truth" of thought. This is not to say that both aspects can exist independently as the effort of human knowledge is structural laws under which we are always referring to an abstract thought will always make reference (simultaneously) to a specific object of reality.