Re: The Failure Of Logic
"Strictly speaking, actions aren't logical or illogical; arguments are. An argument is logical if its conclusion follows from its premises. An argument is illogical if its conclusion does not follow from its premises."
Are you using "logical" to be synonomous with "valid" here?
(ie "logical" = "if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true")
If so, then inductive arguments are not "logical"?
If not, and you're saying that "logical" refers to both valid argument and inductive arguments, then you seem to have a little bit of a circularity problem.
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