Abuse of Logical Thinking - NISHIO Hirokazu's Scrapbox (Auto-translated from Japanese)

Abuse of Logical Thinking

logical thinking has been abused in some cases

The naive belief that logic can foundation is false and

Unclear if the axiom is correct.

(lessening the significance or value of the previous word) the likes of

This can be used maliciously to work-to-rule a project you want to delay

I can then use my discretion, which is not based on logic, to produce results and bring it to the logic of "Proof of competence through results". pragmatism.

I thought these simple and harmful strategies would be easy to stop, but I'm surprised that people don't understand these relativization of correctness stories or are emotionally repulsed by them for some reason!

We are merely talking about such a system, dynamics....

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