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>can easily be discarded on logical grounds, as can every bad idea
No. There's a difference between a logical error vs. abhorrently bad ideas or common sense inanity.
If you have programming experience this is analogous to the difference between a syntax error vs. a program not working as intended e.g. A program can have zero syntax errors and run "successfully" while also exposing your entire customer bases credit card information.
>example
Are you old enough to remember the Amelia Bedelia line of children's books (pic related)?
e.g. In this picture's example she believes "weeding the garden" means adding weeds to the garden, and her logically sound but obviously divergent from intention reasoning is:
Garden's existing weeds are too small to shade vegetables.
Shading vegetables would keep them from getting hot.
Miss Emma mentioned weeding garden before it gets hot.
Therefore, planting taller weeds will shade vegetables before it gets hot.
There is no *logical* error here. If you accept the three preceding premises, then the conclusion follows.
The problem isn't logic but rather common sense. Nothing about logic tells you "weeding" means "remove the weeds" and not "add taller weeds," and nothing about logic tells you Miss Emma's intention for mentioning this chore should be done before it gets hot is for Amelia's benefit so she isn't working in the heat rather than for the sake of getting the vegetables in the shade of weeds before *they* get hot.
>right-brain left-brain
I specifically included the TBI link to differentiate that from the popsci right / left brain bullshit. There aren't right brain creative or left brain logical people, but there are cognitive functions that are lateralized. Verbal / reasoning functions are associated with left hemisphere activity in most people, and it has real testable consequences if you look into the Gazzaniga split brain experiments (or the right hemisphere stroke delusion finding I already brought up).
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