Logic is an art and science yet not the science itself. Logic became a powerful instrument in finding truth lies behind the visible thing. It seems logic always provide the right or real answer of everything but logic is not a god but only one of the means to find out the truth.
Logic cannot provide us the knowledge of reality or the truth absolutely. However, indirectly helps us to come up to know the certain aspects we have in our minds. Example, the logician does not know what elements that contain the water unless the physical science tells it. Logic is a “mere tool of reason”[1] to hypothesize possible means to attain the truth. It is a pattern of thoughts which sciences use also as an aid to attain body of truth. Well, in other aspect, logic is a science because it “investigates, discovers, expresses, systematizes, and demonstrates or explains the laws of correct thinking.”[2] However, the word science is restricted to the so-called “empirical or inductive sciences…”[3]
Actually, human is logical by nature, simply because man is gifted with rational mind by the Creator God. This gift has given by God to be an instrument for man to know and appreciate God’s goodness and greatness. However, it can be a destructive to man when things requires faith- to believe things beyond reasons. Many have written in the history (miracles or divine intervention, and etc) that logic cannot tell us. Logic cannot help us to tell anything. However, God made a way. He revealed and keeps on revealing himself and giving the Holy Spirit to know and believe things which human mind cannot perceive and believe.
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