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Modus Tollens: Reliability of Logic

A recent fascination with truth, and also with the technical language of philosophy, brought me to this conclusion, prompted by a comment from a fellow classmate in Advanced Apologetics.


Modus Tollens in an argument form which denies the consequent:

- If P, then Q
- Not Q
- Therefore, not P

Apply this to the reliability of logic.

- If logic is ever not reliable, it is never reliable.
- Logic is reliable.
- Therefore, logic is always reliable.

Simple, yet controversial.

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