Everyday Decisions

Everyday Decisions

In this paper, I will argue that if a person is exposed to the methods and principles of logic they will benefit in their daily lives. The sooner one correctly applies these methods and principles the more efficient their mind will become. Hence, you will be better equipped to make daily decisions through reasoning (processing information). Logic is a roadmap of the mind that holds true for every human.

All those who are able to apply logic in their daily lives understand how the mind processes information. All those who pass a logic course are able to apply logic in their daily lives. Therefore, all those who pass logic course understand how the mind processes information.

Logic is a necessary to learn in order to process the many variables that affect our daily lives such as our beliefs, how to act, and how to judge others with fairness. Without logic one falls victim to many fallacies. According to Copi (1998), "Fallacies are a type of argument that may seem to be correct, but that proves, on examination, not to be so" (p. 690). If you are not able to pickup on fallacies it will affect decisions, actions and attitudes in one's life. Copi (1998) also states, "Logic is the study of the methods and principles used to distinguish correct from incorrect reasoning" (p. 1). By learning logic one is able to become aware of arguments that are flawed because you will involve yourself in assessing reasons. There are several different types of logic; the ones I am referring to are Aristotelian logic and Prepositional logic.

Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (1979) states, "Aristotelian logic is known as classical or traditional logic, which was first formulated by Aristotle. He developed ru...

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...tanding the reasoning process of our daily lives. I also tried to define a logic course as a series of tests in which one should demonstrate the ability to show that they know the methods and principles of logic. But the problem is, if you just know the methods and principles and if you don't actually apply them the logic course was not of much use. After deliberation, I feel that it is not imperative to have a logic course but I also feel that it would tremendously help one's reasoning ability and because we all reason everyday we should try to make reasoning ability as efficient as possible.

References

1) Irving M. Copi & Carl Cohen. (1998). Introduction to Logic Tenth Edition. Saddle River, New Jersey. Prentice-Hall, Inc Simon & Schuster/A Viacom Company Upper

2) Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary. (1979).

Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.