Reference: Subject: Logic
Reference: The Book of Scientology
Logic
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Summary
Hubbard provides an excellent definition of logic, “Logic is a gradient scale of association of facts of greater or lesser similarity made to resolve some problem of the past, present or future, but mainly to resolve and predict the future.” The mind observes, combines the factors, and predicts by being the objects it is observing, and knowing their condition completely. If it can’t be the objects, then it can assume what they are, use past experience and known laws, and predict. This latter is logic.
To be an object is to know the postulate underlying that object.
The problem is: as long as a person is fixated on his individuality, he can’t be the objects he is observing. Furthermore, Hubbard provides no criterion by which the accuracy of the answer or prediction may be determined.
The genesis of logic is to pose problems and then resolve them. For example, we pose the problem of unknowable, and then postulate to resolve the problem. Hubbard says, “At its best, logic is rationalism, for all logic is based upon the somewhat idiotic circumstance that a being that is immortal is trying to survive.” Hubbard admits that this is a paradox. He then resolves this paradox by postulating, “An immortal being must be persuaded that he cannot survive.”
Hubbard then concludes that logic is used for the survival of the individuality in the MEST universe. He postulates that an immortal being can “create an imperishable body with ease.” Hubbard prefers the postulating of beingness to logic. He says, “Logic is the use of data to produce knowingness; as such it is very junior to knowing something by being it.”
Hubbard actually sees logic as an aberration, the MEST universe as a track of agreement, and Scientology as a discussion of beingness. He says, “Scientific logic and mathematical logic have the frailty of trying to find out what is there before one goes there.” His solution to unknowable is, “Just be.”
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Comments
The paradox, “An immortal being trying to survive,” is self-generated by Hubbard. Buddhism does not see individuality as eternal. There is no postulate that the awareness eternally identifies itself with. All postulates are continuous, consistent and harmonious with each other. This is known as the principle of oneness of reality. This principle acts as an overall constraint that defines sanity.
Hubbard’s thesis is: You can resolve a problem just by being it. In other words, you can be whatever you want. You can postulate anything. There are no constraints. Hubbard rejects the constraint of oneness. His logic is guided by the survival and preservation of individuality.
According to Buddhism, the purpose of logic is to resolve anomalies that violate the integrity (oneness) of reality. Once the integrity of reality is established, any given problem is easy to resolve. One simply needs to perceive things as they are, and postulate only to complete the picture, without generating new anomalies.
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