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0 pointstpxl3y ago0 comments

> people actually reading the content of comments very carefully and upvoting logically sound arguments

You can make a perfectly logical comment that is completely wrong.

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Please elaborate.

Logic is about a chain of formal reasoning that is guaranteed to yield a correct result given correct inputs.

If you start with some wrong premises, you can easily write a logical post that has incorrect conclusions.

I am aware of the formal definition of logic. If this is all that tpxl meant, then it's an extremely pedantic and useless objection.

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0 pointstpxl3y ago0 comments

> people actually reading the content of comments very carefully and upvoting logically sound arguments

You can make a perfectly logical comment that is completely wrong.

Please elaborate.

Logic is about a chain of formal reasoning that is guaranteed to yield a correct result given correct inputs.

If you start with some wrong premises, you can easily write a logical post that has incorrect conclusions.

I am aware of the formal definition of logic. If this is all that tpxl meant, then it's an extremely pedantic and useless objection.

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