Logic & its fallacy

Perhaps, logic in its pristine form tries to explain the cause for the effect that is apparent. So, it is nothing but reasoning. For every effect that we observe, there should be some reason which is causing it. Logic tries to explain the reason for the effect. Logic, in a way helps to cut through a problem and to see through it.

          Logic as a weapon is definitely useful for us in our day-to-day life because many problems that we face in our daily lives become impotent when viewed in the mirror of logic. But the problem with our mind is that it easily gets entangled with the things it uses the most. Logic then, becomes a trap. As someone put it rightly “when you are too good in using the hammer, everything appears to you as a nail”!! So, we start using logic for anything and everything. Then the problem starts. What was intended to be a boon becomes a bane.

          If we recollect the moments in which we were happy, those moments were the most illogical moments. In fact, a joke is an illogical thing. A joke from the beginning follows logic. In the end, abruptly becomes illogical. That’s the precise reason it becomes a joke. If everything were to be perfectly logical, probably there wouldn’t have been any laughter in this world. That’s why a perfectly logical person can not cry totally, can not laugh totally. For him, through his logic, everything becomes obvious. Laughter or grief can exist in non-obvious alone. They can’t exist in the obvious. So, in the due course he becomes more or less like a machine.

          Logic can’t capture anything that is alive. Only dead things can be captured by it. It can’t capture the beauty, love etc. Many are trying to capture god in the mesh of logic which is a very futile attempt in itself. This can be proved logically!! Logic is always dichotomous. Whatever may be the intricacies involved in the matter, after unlocking of the intricacies, ultimately there will be two choices left. Logic always culminates in this way. So, in its very nature, it is two dimensional. But god is something that is one-dimensional. All religions at least in this matter have said it unanimously that god is the one who is incomparable. How can you reason something that which is incomparable? How much ever people might try in explaining god, they are bound to fail.

          So, it is better and essential to keep the use of logic under our discretion. Else it becomes illogically logical or logically illogical!! :-)