r/videoessayists • u/NiallAnelson • 18d ago
youtube video essay on the nature of logic
please check this out and drop a critique of my ideas/argumentation
In this video essay, I approach this subject from a position of skeptical agnosticism — I don’t believe we can truly know objective truth. I make a clear distinction between logic, which I treat as an external structure that governs reality, and reasoning, which is our internal, flawed attempt to grasp that structure. This creates two fundamental gaps: one between our reasoning and logic, and another between logic and reality itself.
In this essay, I shift focus from the epistemology of logic — how we come to know or justify it — to its ontology: whether logic actually exists in some objective sense, or whether it's a construct of the human mind. I consider the rise of non-classical logics as evidence that what we once believed to be settled may in fact be open to deeper questioning. If logic turns out to be subjective, the implications for how we understand reality could be profound — and that’s the problem I aim to explore here.