They do not use it. By this I mean, half-ass logic is not logic. Because pure logic is based on the solving power of end results.
If you risk your life in order to save your life just to put food on the family table I question your common sense.
If I point out that risk only enhances the problem, maybe even creating others, logic to this extreme is considered irrational.
I contend that most people use logic to get to a comfortable place. Once there preferences based on emotional appeal kick in to favor a settled place called practical.
If you care about water on mars more than clean drinkable water everywhere on earth than your logic will create clever ways to get to mars only make the mars water dirty.
And the funny thing is, the ones that claim logic dislike automatic feelers who chose words based on sound rather than meaning, or those who like a sport team because they like uniforms with only their favorite colors.
Truth is, feelers usually know that logic is not carried out to the full extent. They have a feeling for this. It’s called righteous indignation.
Yeah, in common usage, what is meant by “logical”, is at best some kind of inductive inference, not formal logic or deduction.
And the inferences are selectively used in support of certain particular held values, that are usually unknown to the person in question.
Calling something logical is then often just a rethorical device, like calling something rational is too for instance. They are words to give some air of ‘objectivity’ to the case one happens to be making.
Feelers feel this because by paying more attention to sound, intonation, facial expression than to content, they are more attuned to different emotional states, and the differing perspectives and values-scales that go with that.
So they kinda feel logic is not all what it’s made out to be. But they err on the other extreme IMO, if they throw “logic” overboard alltogether, and stick to only giving vague impressions. This :
I guess my point was that feelers take a short cut while logicians take a longer route to preferences.
In the end, you don’t know why you prefer it, only that you do.
Feelers don’t examine their best interest acting mostly on impulse while logical ones do size things up with caution. But, since they stop short of their best interest I fail to see that attribute as the one to boast about, say, to aliens.
One is senseless. The other doesn’t fully use the sense they have.
Poor people don’t know wealth but they quickly recognize the wasting nature of those in abundance.
Language is defined in syntactic terms, and as such does not have any meaning until it is given some interpretation.
All there is is interpretation. There is nothing else you can do but interpret. What other faculty is available other than representing mentally the meaning or significance of something? Looking at things without deriving some kind of interest or sensual satisfaction is an unemotional and un-rational approach.
To act “rationally” is to act in one’s own best interest in an activity that involves strong interest and competitiveness and is carried out by its own specific and often unspoken norms. Individuals can be counted on to use strategies that will get them the best possible advantage given their understanding of the society. This idea of “rational” behavior is the basis for living in a world of ideas and interpretations as a whole.