The Illogical Reason To Embrace Logic

There is such a thing as an illogical reason to believe in or hold to logic.  When non-rationalists believe anything, they can only assume: knowledge is impossible without absolute certainty, and one cannot have absolute certainty without intentionally, rightly grasping the foundation of truth and knowledge, which is logical axioms such as the necessity of truth.  This axiom can only be true because if nothing is true, then this is itself true—but logical axioms are not merely true of other things because they are true in themselves.  If nothing logically follows from anything, then it follows logically from the nature of reality that logic is false; things do still follow or not follow logically, and independent of any other examples, this is intrinsically, absolutely true.

And, for instance, if contradictions are possible, then would necessarily be true that what is sometimes called the logical law of non-contradiction is false, or else contradictions would be impossible.  This means that even if the latter is false, it still is true that conflicting concepts cannot be true simultaneously, logically requiring that contradictions are impossible either way.  No matter what, independent of other examples of particular issues, non-contradiction is true because the alternative would nonetheless entail that this logical law, which contradicts it, is false.  In turn, since all logical axioms cannot be false, any concept that contradicts them must be false.  

Believing any concept without logical proof, solely found in the self-evidence of these axioms or in what necessarily follows from something in light of axioms.  Even if someone does not directly think about or realize these strictly logical facts that are true because they cannot possibly be false, they are still relying on them and other logical truths (either by assuming or by metaphysically depending on them) about things like mind and belief, such as that belief does not require that the thing believed is true, or that one cannot believe or think at all without already existing as a conscious being.  While not an axiom in the same purely logical sense, it is also self-evident and logically true that one cannot deny or ignore the existence of one's own mind without existing as a mind to have such asinine thoughts.

This too is a logical truth, albeit not about pure logic.  Because logic is inherently true, it is unavoidable.  Not even the most passive, philosophically negligent person can go a single moment without metaphysically or epistemologically relying on logic.  Only the logical possibility of their own existence makes it possible for them to exist, because their being does not contradict logical axioms.  It is just that anything they believe, even if they believe something true and demonstrable for what is in isolation a correct necessary truth, is only assumed since they do not know logical axioms.  At best they attach their belief to some form of subjective, arbitrary persuasion divorced from recognition of transcendent logical facts.

Logic is not a mental process; though grasped by the mind, it is not a construct or perception or some kind of illusion.  Reasoning is a mental process that can be done in alignment with objective logical truths or in deviation from them (irrational reasoning).  Many people reason on the basis of appeals to intuition or authority figures, not intrinsically necessary truths, making anything they believe invalid even if the conclusion itself is demonstrably true or at least logically possible.  Reasoning can be done illogically, but logic itself simply is true, unaffected by belief or a person's reason for believing any part of their worldview.  Non-rationalists might like to selectively pay lip service to logic to feel validated in their fallacies or look "intelligent" before others, but at most, they are still enslaved to assumptions.  How many of them have even thought of these truths about axioms enough to actively misunderstand or reject them?  Few, if any!

It is possible to have a correct belief for utterly illogical reasons.  The supreme example of this is believing in a truth about pure reason itself like logical axioms on the basis of something like emotional comfort or personal approval, since logic cannot be false without still being true and hence is epistemologically self-evident without reducing down to anything else and also the supreme metaphysical part of reality, the only self-necessary reality at that.  To assume that logic is true or in any way believe this for an incorrect reason, for any reason other than its own inherent truth, is irrational.  Assumptions do not become valid to any extent because the thing assumed is true or even if the thing assumed is inherently true.