The Practicality Of Logic

Logic is the only tool that can soundly navigate people to and around abstract metaphysical and epistemological truths, but it is also the only tool that can soundly bring people to facts about practicality.  Rather than always being polar opposites, the abstract and the practical share common philosophical ground: both are intertwined by necessity due to the fact that reason governs all things.

Still, the two are often treated like they are completely separate, as if the abstract laws of logic do not underpin the whole of everyday life, from the most mundane of events to the most personally exciting things, just as they underpin all else.  The most basic or dull of occurrences is just as much a matter of logic as a deep philosophical issues.  The difference, of course, is that the latter is far more important.

That epistemological, metaphysical, and existential matters are more important than the practical details of life does not mean that practicality is if no value, however.  The practical appeal of an idea does nothing to establish its veracity or falsity, but there is no reason to completely neglect how rationalism and philosophy intersect with practicality.  To think that rationalism does not hold ramifications for all things is delusional.

Reason certainly has its higher uses, but this does not eliminate the practical elements of human life, much less render reason irrelevant to them.  The laws of logic are the key to all accessible knowledge about metaphysics--and they are also the key to managing the practical components of daily life.  There is no conflict between these truths, just as there is and cannot be conflict between any other truths.  Logic encompasses all aspects of reality.