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+## Logico Philosophicus
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The Lie of the Discipline of Symbolic Logic.txt

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+This is Audible.
+The Lie of the Discipline of Symbolic Logic, written by John Michael Kuchinski, narrated
+by Trevor Klinger.
+The Lie of the Discipline of Symbolic Logic.
+I used to be a professor, and one of the disciplines I taught was symbolic logic.
+I have long since stopped being a professor, since it was obviously a total crock.
+But now, I run a tutoring business that involves me helping other people with their homework,
+including symbolic logic homework.
+Back when I was a philosophy professor and grad student, I really tried to see legitimacy
+in the discipline of symbolic logic and actually generated some meaningful results in it.
+But there was always something off about it, but I couldn't quite put my finger on the
+problem.
+And then, just a moment ago, when I was finishing up a round of logic homework, for some poor
+sap, it hit me.
+What they call logic in universities is the ultimate bureaucrat discipline.
+There I was, doing utterly time-consuming and generally wasteful exercises for some client,
+who, like all my clients, knew that it simply wasn't in his interest to jump through more
+bureaucratic hoops than he had to.
+There I was, as I was saying, and I had just spent thirty minutes putting in a lot of little
+idiot notations, along the lines of Modus Tollens, lines two, five, and double negation, line one.
+Monkey idiot, fake math bullshit.
+Another thing I had done was complete some truth-table-based proof, another favorite of logic professors.
+Eighty-five percent of what I was doing had no substance.
+It was purely procedural.
+Purely bureaucratic.
+And, this time, I saw it with the requisite simplicity and clarity.
+I looked back at the people I knew, during undergraduate and graduate school, who were into logic, and
+they were all broken, empty husk bureaucrats.
+Quasi-smart, but not actually smart.
+Maybe a little bit actually smart.
+But what they had in the way of intelligence was more about what they didn't have.
+In other words, they lacked so much in terms of intellect, or if not intellect, then personality,
+that the only part of them that was still functional was the logic part, which, for that reason, predominated.
+They all ended up becoming cipher lawyers.
+The other thing is that the term logic is a serious misnomer in this context.
+What they call logic in college isn't logic.
+Real logic is about organizing statement sets in a way that exposes dependence relations.
+What they call logic at universities is about rooting through the leavings of some long-gone
+and only semi-successful attempts on some person's part to organize some statement set.
+What they call logic, in other words, is the study of someone else's attempt to construct
+a particular system of logic, which is not logic.
+Once the statement set in question has been duly logicized, there is quite trivially nothing
+left for the logician to do, since all the intelligence involving work has at that point
+been automated away.
+Whatever work there is left, it's for the robots, and that's just who does it, except
+that in this context, the robots are human robots, bureaucrats, in other words.
+There was a computer program designed around twenty years ago called Tarski's World, which
+was an attempt to automate logic.
+It was the worst conceivable failure in the history of automation.
+It was far more difficult to learn how to use their cantankerous software than it was to
+do the problems the old-fashioned way.
+And what they were automating had already been automated, since to construct a logic is to
+automate the making of inferences.
+So the very idea of automating logic is absurd.
+What the authors of this program were doing was automating the automating of making inferences,
+which meant that the student spent hours learning some junk program that insulated him from logic,
+instead of instructing him in it.
+Second, it wasn't even logic that was being automated.
+It was some fragment of some specific logic, which as it turns out was a total bust.
+But these philosophy professors kept on lingering over that unburied carcass because they couldn't
+come up with anything else.
+Also the algorithms of which that particular system of logic availed humanity were useless.
+Not in the sense that they gave the wrong answer, but in the sense that applying them took far
+heftier resources of intellect and energy than simply solving the target problems directly.
+Plus, they only apply to artifacts, and the process of converting a statement set into the
+requisitely artificial form is far more involved intellectually than whatever it is one supposedly
+figures out by using the algorithms in question.
+Try using truth tables to evaluate some actual argument.
+It's not worth it.
+It's easier to do it by longhand, so to speak.
+Plus on the rare occasions that truth tables can be applied, what they tell you is Mickey Mouse.
+And by using them, you will simply divert your attention from matters of substance.
+Such is the very definition of mathematical failure.
+If an algorithm makes it harder to solve the problem that it solves, then there is no use
+for it.
+It is mathematical garbage.
+The discipline stuck around partly because a bunch of pencil pushing geeks posing as thinkers
+were in the comfort zone with it.
+Because it's not a real discipline.
+It's just a collection of bureaucrat geek protocols masquerading as one.
+This has been The Lie of the Discipline of Symbolic Logic, written by John Michael Kuchinski, narrated
+by Trevor Klinger.
+Copyright 2020 by John Michael Kuchinski.
+Audible hopes you have enjoyed this program.