Reference: Subject: Logic
In Black is the original Dianetic data.
In color are comments as seen through Postulate Mechanics.
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The Logics were written by L. Ron Hubbard from a summary of information which began in November of 1938 and were published in 1951. They have never varied since that time.
The Logics form a gradient scale of association of facts necessary to understand and resolve any problem. They can be used to predict behavior and clarify the entire field of thought. The Logics are a method of thinking and could be called ‘how to think.’ In fact, the basic common denominators of all education can be found in the Logics.
The goal of logic is to establish the ONENESS of reality. In other words, logic brings about harmony, consistency and continuity of reality. Any disharmony, inconsistency or discontinuity is considered an anomaly and illogical. The process of logic involves postulating and making projections to resolve the anomalies.
The mind uses logic to observe reality, and evolve it further. The conclusions of the mind must be harmonious, consistent and continuous with reality for its logic to be correct. The mind focuses on detecting or conceiving anomalies, so that it can resolve them to achieve its purpose.
In the following comments, the mind is visualized as a matrix of data that is energized by the impulse to evolve. These postulates about reality, logic and mind lead to some revisions in Hubbard’s logics.
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Logics 1 – 24
DN = Dianetics
PM = Postulate Mechanics
DN LOGIC 1: Knowledge is a whole group or subdivision of a group of data or speculations or conclusions on data or methods of gaining data.
DN LOGIC 2: A body of knowledge is a body of data, aligned or unaligned, or methods of gaining data.
DN LOGIC 3: Any knowledge which can be sensed, measured or experienced by any entity is capable of influencing that entity.
COROLLARY: That knowledge which cannot be sensed, measured or experienced by any entity or type of entity cannot influence that entity or type of entity.
DN LOGIC 4: A datum is a symbol of matter, energy, space or time, or any combination thereof, in any universe, or the matter, energy, space or time itself, or any combination thereof, in any universe.
PDC Tape 14: A datum is a facsimile of states of being, states of not being, actions or inactions, conclusions or suppositions in the physical or any other universe.
Scn 8-8008: [A datum is] anything of which one could become aware, whether the thing existed or whether he created it.
DN LOGIC 5: A definition of terms is necessary to the alignment, statement and resolution of suppositions, observations, problems and solutions and their communication.
DEFINITION: Descriptive definition: one which classifies by characteristics, by describing existing states of being.
DEFINITION: Differentiative definition: one which compares unlikeness to existing states of being or not-being.
DEFINITION: Associative definition: one which declares likeness to existing states of being or not-being.
DEFINITION: Action definition: one which delineates cause and potential change of state of being by cause of existence, inexistence, action, inaction, purpose or lack of purpose.
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PM LOGIC 1: Knowledge is the assimilation of sensations, perceptions, conceptions and experience.
PM LOGIC 2: A body of knowledge is a body of aligned data.
PM LOGIC 3: Any knowledge which can be sensed, measured or experienced by any entity is capable of influencing that entity, and vice versa.
PM LOGIC 4: A datum is a symbol or a facsimile of a manifestation, or the manifestation itself.
PM LOGIC 5: A definition of terms is necessary for their communication and assimilation.
NOTE: The definition must be derived from the postulate underlying that term.
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DN LOGIC 6: Absolutes are unobtainable.
DN LOGIC 7: Gradient scales are necessary to the evaluation of problems and their data.
This is the tool of infinity-valued logic: Absolutes are unobtainable. Terms such as good and bad, alive and dead, right and wrong are used only in conjunction with gradient scales. On the scale of right and wrong, everything above zero or center would be more and more right, approaching an infinite rightness, and everything below center would be more and more wrong, approaching infinite wrongness. All things assisting the survival of the survivor are considered to be right for the survivor. All things inhibiting survival from the viewpoint of the survivor can be considered wrong for the survivor. The more a thing assists survival, the more it can be considered right for the survivor; the more a thing or action inhibits survival, the more it is wrong from the viewpoint of the intended survivor.
COROLLARY: Any datum has only relative truth.
COROLLARY: Truth is relative to environments, experience and truth.
DN LOGIC 8: A datum can be evaluated only by a datum of comparable magnitude.
DN LOGIC 9: A datum is as valuable as it has been evaluated.
DN LOGIC 10: The value of a datum is established by the amount of alignment (relationship) it imparts to other data.
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PM LOGIC 6: Absolutes are unobtainable.
PM LOGIC 7: Gradient scales are necessary to the evaluation of problems and their data.
NOTE: Any datum is as true as it does not have anomalies.
PM LOGIC 8: A datum can be evaluated only by a datum of comparable magnitude.
PM LOGIC 9: A datum is as valuable as it has been evaluated.
PM LOGIC 10: The value of a datum is established by the amount of assimilation it imparts to other data.
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DN LOGIC 11: The value of a datum or field of data can be established by its degree of assistance in survival or its inhibition to survival.
DN LOGIC 12: The value of a datum or a field of data is modified by the viewpoint of the observer.
DN LOGIC 13: Problems are resolved by compartmenting them into areas of similar magnitude and data, comparing them to data already known or partially known, and resolving each area. Data which cannot be known immediately may be resolved by addressing what is known and using its solution to resolve the remainder.
DN LOGIC 14: Factors introduced into a problem or solution which do not derive from natural law but only from authoritarian command aberrate that problem or solution.
DN LOGIC 15: The introduction of an arbitrary into a problem or solution invites the further introduction of arbitraries into problems and solutions.
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PM LOGIC 11: The value of a datum or field of data is established by the assimilation it brings toward oneness.
PM LOGIC 12: The value of a datum or a field of data is modified by the viewpoint of the observer.
PM LOGIC 13: Problems are resolved by isolating the underlying postulates and the anomalies in them, which are then traced back by identifying arbitrary, contradictory and missing data until resolved.
PM LOGIC 14: Factors introduced into a problem or solution which do not derive from natural law but only from authoritarian command aberrate that problem or solution.
PM LOGIC 15: The introduction of an arbitrary into a problem or solution invites the further introduction of arbitraries into problems and solutions.
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DN LOGIC 16: An abstract postulate must be compared to the universe to which it applies and brought into the category of things which can be sensed, measured or experienced in that universe before such postulate can be considered workable.
DN LOGIC 17: Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.
DN LOGIC 18: A postulate is as valuable as it is workable.
DN LOGIC 19: The workability of a postulate is established by the degree to which it explains existing phenomena already known, by the degree that it predicts new phenomena which when looked for will be found to exist, and by the degree that it does not require that phenomena which do not exist in fact be called into existence for its explanation.
DN LOGIC 20: A science may be considered to be a large body of aligned data which has similarity in application and which has been deduced or induced from basic postulates.
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PM LOGIC 16: An abstract postulate must provide to an area, where it is going to be applied, patterns that can be sensed, measured, or experienced before such postulate can be considered workable.
PM LOGIC 17: Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data contain most anomalies.
PM LOGIC 18: A postulate is as valuable as it resolves anomalies.
PM LOGIC 19: The workability of a postulate is established by the degree to which it explains existing phenomena already known, by the degree that it predicts new phenomena which when looked for will be found to exist, and by the degree that it does not require that phenomena which do not exist in fact be called into existence for its explanation.
PM LOGIC 20: A science may be considered to be a large body of aligned data which has similarity in application and which has been deduced or induced from basic postulates.
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DN LOGIC 21: Mathematics are methods of postulating or resolving real or abstract data in any universe and integrating by symbolization of data, postulates and resolutions.
DN LOGIC 22: The human mind is an observer, postulator, creator and storage place of knowledge.
The human mind by definition includes the awareness unit of the living organism, the observer, the computer of data, the spirit, the memory storage, the life force and the individual motivator of the living organism. It is used as distinct from the brain which can be considered to be motivated by the mind.
DN LOGIC 23: The human mind is a servomechanism to any mathematics evolved or employed by the human mind.
POSTULATE: The human mind and inventions of the human mind are capable of resolving any and all problems which can be sensed, measured or experienced directly or indirectly.
COROLLARY: The human mind is capable of resolving the problem of the human mind. The borderline of solution of this science lies between why life is surviving and how life is surviving. It is possible to resolve how life is surviving without resolving why life is surviving.
DN LOGIC 24: The resolution of the philosophical, scientific and human studies (such as economics, politics, sociology, medicine, criminology, etc.) depends primarily upon the resolution of the problems of the human mind.
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PM LOGIC 21: Mathematics is mechanical logic based on certain postulates. It provides abstract patterns and matches them with the patterns in the universe to discover more fundamental patterns.
PM LOGIC 22: The human mind is a matrix of data that is harmonious, consistent and continuous. It is continually assimilating incoming data by resolving anomalies in that data and itself.
NOTE: The substance of thought has its own intrinsic motion. As thought becomes more sophisticated, so does its intrinsic motion. It develops a structure much more sophisticated than any mathematics we know. It appears as life force, spirit, observer, postulator, creator, etc. The mental matrix is supported by the structure of the brain, which facilitates data storage and memory.
PM LOGIC 23: The human mind can easily control anything evolved or employed by the human mind, including itself.
NOTE: A servomechanism is an automatic device for controlling large amounts of power by means of very small amounts of power and automatically correcting the performance of a mechanism.
PM LOGIC 24: The resolution of the philosophical, scientific and human studies (such as economics, politics, sociology, medicine, criminology, etc.) depends primarily upon the resolution of the problems of the human mind.
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The primary step in resolving the broad activities of man could be considered to be the resolving of the activities of the mind itself. Hence, the Logics carry to this point and then proceed as axioms concerning the human mind, such axioms being substantiated as relative truths by much newly discovered phenomena. The ensuing axioms, from Logic 24, apply no less to the various “ologies” than they do to de-aberrating or improving the operation of the mind. It should not be thought that the following axioms are devoted to the construction of anything as limited as a therapy, which is only incidental to the resolution of human aberration and such things as psychosomatic illnesses. These axioms are capable of such solution, as has been demonstrated, but such a narrow application would indicate a very narrow scope of view.
The broad activities of man and the activities of the mind resolve in conjunction with each other. The data in these Logics is sufficient to start resolving the problems of the human mind through the process of Subject Clearing. The subsequent axioms are designed to bring about better understanding of the overall universal matrix and the mind, which may further accelerate the resolution of the human problems.
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