{
  "author": "Maclain Hunter",
  "title": "Scripture and the Logical Standard",
  "identifier": "hunter-scripture-logical-standard",
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  "content": "\nP: It is valid to cite religious scripture or texts of any kind of those citations and references are then used in a logically coherent fashion. \n\nNecessity: P must be true or citations would risk becoming logically unhinged and incoherent. \n\nQ: Assume we allow citations of scripture or other texts to supersede or provide an alternative logical (or universal) Standard, besides Logic (Logos - the True Origin of Logical Frameworks and Existence), which contradicts Logic at its fundamental level (Logos - the Coherence of Reality being Reality). \n\nNecessity: Q must be true or things, such as passages of texts, or arbitrary standards/goalposts, could supersede and undermine Logic (Logos - the Logical Standard of Logical Existence), which is untenable logically and objectively.\n\nR: Even taking multiple passages from a single coherent text but using them to justify double standards in various contexts as some do with “proof-texting” can introduce deceptive (seemingly valid) “illogical standards” - meaning double standards and proposed standards besides Logic itself. \n\nNecessity: R must be true as Logic must be the logical standard or it leads to logical contradiction in Reality and “Logical Systems” (which includes Reality and all logical systems within it). If R weren’t true then it could paradoxically be true by a newly valid “illogical standard” (or in other words if we can’t just say we’re right according to “whatever” then I declare I’m right according to such an illogical standard then too, as Logic says the logical is right/correct by the actual Logical Standard of Logic). \n\n{P, P -> Q, Q -> R} |= (P & Q) & R\n\nConclusion: {P, Q, R}: \n\nLogic is the Logical Standard universally and irrefutably (beyond feasible logical refutation as Logic is a self-reinforcing Standard and System not a self-defeating and self-undermining one as illogical systems are - by definition) and this is tautological - self evident in Logic and the very Nature of Logic. Letting other supposed “standards” (including laws and rules, but also personal and rational standards) supersede coherent Reason and Logic is inherently illogical. \n\nEven things like the citation of holy scriptures or respected philosophical texts, or those texts themselves, cannot reasonably/logically (or actually) supersede logically consistent Logic (True Logic - the Logic rooted in Reality being Reality - the Logos also called God in classical theism and Greek philosophy). ",
  "formal": null,
  "structuredAuthoredProof": null,
  "authoredSteps": null,
  "recordedAt": "2026-10-03T01:33:07.032Z",
  "originalAuthoredAt": null,
  "propositionMeaningBoundary": "Atomic identifiers retain their meanings in the exact source. No arbitrary truth assignment establishes an ontological or empirical premise; the formal witness checks the written inference."
}