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A stance in logic that rejects formal systems as sufficient for reasoning about life. Logical Thoreauvianism holds that real‑world reasoning requires context, intuition, and moral attention—not just inference rules. It criticises the dominance of classical logic in education and public discourse, advocating instead for pluralism and the validity of analogical, dialectical, and even poetic reasoning. It does not abandon logic but insists that logic serve life, not the other way around.
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