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LOGIC: Help or Hinderance?

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                                                                I shall start with discussing the use of logic in our everyday material world, then the use of logic for religion.  Now is trying to apply logic a bad idea? Is it always a good idea? Or does applying it strongly depend on specific circumstances of everyday life?  First, a simple definition of logic is, the science of correct reasoning. Also, a logical conclusion is one seen by rational analysis as inevitable or necessary due to an interrelation, connection, or sequence of facts. Therefore, some things do not require logical reasoning, because they are immediately obvious. For example, someone did not look where they were walking, so their head became acquainted with a metal pole. For some other things you cannot apply logic because you have zero information...

Occam's Razor

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                                                  Occam's Razor is an extremely important philosophic principle linked to philosopher and theologian William of Ockham. Put simply, it states: "Of competing theories, that which provides the simplest explanation for something should be preferred. A similar formula was already made by Aristotle (384-322 BC) and Ptolemy (circa AD 100-AD 170) and reiterated by Isaac Newton (1642-1727). It is also known as the law of parsimony. Parsimony means extremely thrifty or careful with resources. So, the simplest explanation for anything is most likely correct, while the more complex an explana-tion, the reverse is true: the less and less likely to be correct. For example, a tree fell down. You could logically conclude that the wind knocked it down. Or believe a meteorite knocked it down, which hit another meteorite, obliteratin...