Is logic and abstract concept?

Question

sorry, typo, Is logic an abstract concept?

Answer 1

Logic is like math. It has precise terms and definitions. So my answer is no, it is not what I would call abstract.  

Answer 2

I'd say yes. It depends on a "language game" (Wittgenstein) of abstract definitions. We create an arbitary (in the sense that it could have been otherwise) world of definitions and rules and then shows us where the result leads us. This is not to say that it is at all useless because (as Ayer tells us) it helps us to indentify nuances in our language and arguments. Have you read Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"? It runs through most of this and I tend to agree with it.

Answer 3

Absolutely.

" Logic is the art or skill of non-contradictory identification. Logic has a single law, the Law of Identity, and its various corollaries. If logic has nothing to do with reality, it means that the Law of Identity is inapplicable to reality. If so, then: a. things are not what they are; b. things can be and not be at the same time, in the same respect, i.e., reality is made up of contradictions. If so, by what means did anyone discover it? By illogical means. (This last is for sure.) The purpose of that notion is crudely obvious. Its actual meaning is not: “Logic has nothing to do with reality,” but: “I, the speaker, have nothing to do with logic (or with reality).” When people use that catch phrase, they mean either: “It’s logical, but I don’t choose to be logical” or: “It’s logical, but people are not logical, they don’t think—and I intend to pander to their irrationality.” Ayn Rand

If this is not abstracted from the concepts of mind, then nothing is. The opposite of a concept, if that thing exists at all, is an empirical object. Anything that exists within the mind AND has no corresponding physical object is an abstraction.

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Answer 4

Logic I think is what makes sense of the abstract and gives it practical value. Isn't it?  

Answer 5

No. Logic is ordered and conditional.

Answer 6

Can you abstract without logic?