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How to Advance Over Religion and Other False Doctrines with Just Three Logical Devices
An Exploration with Advanced Google Gemini
9 min readSep 27, 2024
Let’s assume levels of logic exist. Level one is everything is true, and any perceived contradiction actually isn’t — it’s just mysterious.
This allows all religions, myths, conspiracy theories, and pseudosciences to thrive.
Level two logic introduces the law of non-contradiction, the law of the excluded middle, and the mortality syllogism.
How much of level one beliefs get “debunked” by level 2 logic if we don’t allow appeals to the mysterious anymore?
Level 2 logic, with its introduction of fundamental principles of reasoning, would significantly “debunk” a vast majority of Level 1 beliefs. Let’s break it down:
- Law of Non-Contradiction: This law states that something cannot be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect. This would directly challenge many religious, mythical, and…