Why is logic important for philosophy?
Answer Logic is important because our thinking requires standards–not just any way will do. Logic provides the standards for reasonable, rational, successful thinking. Why? Because logic rests on the basic idea that no contradictions can exist in the world. So if logical contradictions, inconsistencies, infect our thinking, we are bound to go astray. An argument is a line of thinking that starts with known facts (premises), from which something not yet know is derived (conclusions), provided logical principles are being used. Deductive arguments involve using various definitions or necessary truths and learning what is embedded in them; so a deductive argument adds nothing to but merely makes explicit what is hidden in what we already know. An inductive argument amounts to taking examples of a certain kind of thing or event and learning what tends to recur in them all and investing this result with confidence but not treating it as necessarily true. A logical contradiction amounts to
