Logic Blind Spot

A specific failure to apply the same rigorous logical standards to your own foundational beliefs or sacred assumptions that you demand be applied to challenging ideas. You can deconstruct an opponent's position with syllogistic precision, but the core axioms of your own worldview—your political ideology, religious faith, or personal philosophy—exist in a protected, logic-free zone where they are accepted as "self-evident" or "beyond mere logic."

Example: "The philosopher could dissect the logical inconsistencies of utilitarianism for hours. But ask him to logically justify his core belief in absolute free will, and he'd retreat into murky appeals to 'conscious experience.' That was his logic blind spot: a dazzling searchlight turned outward, and a cozy, uncritical candle burning for his own foundations."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Self-Serving Logic

The craft of constructing logical-sounding arguments with the sole purpose of arriving at a conclusion that serves your interests, using logic not as a tool for discovery but as a weapon for justification. You start with the desired endpoint ("I am correct/I deserve this") and work backwards, selecting only the premises and logical rules that build a path to that end, discarding any that lead elsewhere.

Example: "His self-serving logic for taking the last slice of pizza: 'I paid more into the tip. The person who contributes more to the communal fund has earned a greater share of the communal resource. This is basic distributive justice. Also, I'm still growing.' He'd used a twisted form of contractual logic to justify his gluttony."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Bending Logic

The deliberate, often sneaky, distortion of logical rules and structures to make an invalid argument appear valid. This involves misapplying logical operators, creating false dichotomies, using equivocation (changing the meaning of a word mid-argument), or crafting syllogisms with hidden, untrue premises. It's not being bad at logic; it's being a con artist with logic as your prop.

Example: "He defended his conspiracy theory by bending logic: 'Either you believe the official report, or you seek the truth. You're criticizing my search for truth. Therefore, you must believe the official report.' He'd bent a complex situation into a forced binary choice, making skepticism look like blind faith."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Logic Forging

The deliberate fabrication of a false chain of deductive reasoning, presenting a series of statements that appear to follow formal logical rules but which contain a secretly invented or twisted rule. This creates a simulacrum of a logical proof that "proves" something false. It's like writing a mathematical proof where you quietly redefine what the equals sign means halfway through.

Example: "He forged a logic to prove his conspiracy: 'Premise 1: Powerful people keep secrets. Premise 2: I have a secret. Conclusion: I am powerful. If I am powerful and they are powerful, we are part of the same secret network. QED.' He'd forged a link between trivial and grand secrets, creating a fake logical bridge to inflate his own importance." Logic Forging

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Logic Crafting

The careful, architectural design of a reasoning system using valid logical rules, but with carefully chosen, biased, or false premises that the audience is likely to accept. The logic itself is sound, but the entire structure is engineered to lead to a pre-determined outcome because the starting points were rigged. It's giving someone a perfectly accurate map that leads directly to your own boutique because you secretly defined "destination" as "my store."

Example: "The lawyer crafted his logic flawlessly: 'If the defendant was at home, he couldn't be at the crime scene. His smart home data shows his lights were on at home. Therefore, he was at home.' The logic was valid, but he'd crafted it to omit the fact the defendant's lights were on a timer—a premise he carefully avoided examining." Logic Crafting

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Theory of Constructed Logic

The provocative idea that even the rules of logic (like non-contradiction: a thing cannot be both A and not-A) are not timeless, Platonic truths discovered by the brain, but are cognitive tools our minds and cultures have constructed because they are useful for survival and communication. Other systems of reasoning (dialetheism, fuzzy logic) can be constructed, showing that our "common sense" logic is one possible system among many.

*Example: "In our logic, 'the statement is true or false' seems obvious. In quantum computing, a qubit can be in a superposition—both 1 and 0 at once. The Theory of Constructed Logic suggests our everyday logic isn't the law of the universe, but a very useful mental model we built to navigate a middle-sized, slow-moving world. For the subatomic realm, we had to construct a weirder logic."*

by Abzu Land January 31, 2026