How does logic help us clarify or solve problems
Everyday people employ the use of logic to help them clarify or solve problems. Logic may only provide validity or highly probable ideas, but the correct answer, if any, is left for one to decide. The science of thinking and rationalizing, logic is like a double-edge sword. When logic is utilized it may become an efficient tool, capable of discovering correct ideas and understandings. ... There are certain methods of logic to determine possible solutions for a problem and to verify them. ... For logic can only determine "the distinction between correct and incorrect reasoning" (Copi, p. ... "In induction our reasoning takes us beyond what we already know, it widens our knowledge. ... 29) Induction is used in scientific problems for the reason that with given knowledge on can "provide conclusions whose content exceeds that of their premises. ... The lack of information in inductive reasoning is the reason why this type of logic only provides probable answers. ... Thus confusion arises on the truth of the solution, for logic can only give valid or probable ideas. ... For logic to help one to clarify or provide validity, the information that one has must be true in order to have correct reasoning. ... Logic is useful in many ways but in some cases it proves to be the confusion. The confusion of logic is greatly amplified in the idea of a paradox. ... He proposed some paradox such as: If a barber only shaves all the people who dont shave themselves, does he shave himself? ... When the barber shaves himself, it contradicts the statement that "he only shaves all the people who dont shave themselves" and vice versa when he does not shave himself. In practice, the barber must get shaved or else he does not shave at all but using logic it is impossible and thus making the problem confusing.