The Basis of Meaningful Communication

Aristotle taught that logic is not a science, but a critical instrument, a necessary tool for all science, and a necessary condition for meaningful communication to take place. 

This is important to grasp. If you want to engage in meaningful and purposeful communication, you have to use the instrument of logic or else, you will be communicating irrationality.

If I say for example, that this phone I am holding in my hand is not a phone, I cannot communicate anything intelligible to you. Because I am seeking to communicate out of the realm of reality to fix laws that do not apply.

If I lower my voice and say in a soft whisper, “This is not a cell-phone.” I may sound philosophical. You may come up with a creative explanation: “The piece of device you hold in your hand, although it has the appearance of a cell phone, it is not a cell phone because it does not participate in the universal realm of cell-phoneness.”

Just how far will such communication between two people actually go? You cannot make sense out of irrationality. You can fool those around you with your hush voice and philosophical reasoning, but someone will overcome such nonsense when they come to recognize it as a con game – when you make a statement that is fundamentally non-intelligible. People do this all the time. They purposefully violate the law of non-contradiction, and in so doing, plunge into a sea of relativism and irrationality. If people talk boldly and how they do it, they get away with it. All this is really designed to undermine Christian theism.

You see, people talk irrational when it comes to fix laws or absolutes, because the Bible supports such teaching. But they cannot live their lives believing such things. All the university classroom propaganda is designed to undermine Christian theism. But when the subject changes to something simple, such as, “Please pass the salt,” critical distinctions are made and understood.” The law of non-contradiction is thrown out when theism is discussed, but the law itself becomes embraced over the simplest features of life.

Hey, here is what we are trying to show. You may deny the Bible and Christianity all you want, and you have the choice to do so. But what we are determined to show is that when you do, you are believing, communicating and acting irrationally.