Is there an answer to this question?

[sandybay]

Why is logic true?

If love is real how much does it weigh? Because surely every material thing has a mass and could, at least in theory, be weighed.

Love is a word we use to explain a certain feeling, just like the words we use for hate, fear or jealousy, words only weigh heavy on our hearts. (metaphorically speaking of course)

I suppose not being able to answer questions like this is what keeps you believing in a God, am I right?

 

[bhsmte]

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[MoreCoffee]

Love is a word we use to explain a certain feeling, just like the words we use for hate, fear or jealousy, words only weigh heavy on our hearts. (metaphorically speaking of course)

I suppose not being able to answer questions like this is what keeps you believing in a God, am I right?

no.

 

[quatona]

Why is logic true?

Do you demand the answer to avoid illogicalities, or would you do with an illogical answer? Why?

If love is real how much does it weigh? Because surely every material thing has a mass and could, at least in theory, be weighed.

Love weighs exactly as much as electricity and the wind.

 

[True Scotsman]

Why is logic true?

If love is real how much does it weigh? Because surely every material thing has a mass and could, at least in theory, be weighed.

Logic is a tool of cognition. It is propositions that are true or false. A true proposition is one that corresponds to reality. You wouldn't say that logic is true any more than you would say a rock is true. You could say it is true that logic is a tool to validate reasoning.

Love is real. It is an emotion. Love can be measured but the unit of measure proper to love is values, not weight. Just as you would not measure the length of a board in pounds or the color of a flower in inches, you don't measure love in a unit of measure inappropriate to love. You measure love against your own hierarchy of values. I love my wife more than the next door neighbor and I love my family more than a stranger on the street.

 

[Paul of Eugene OR]

Love is related to photons in what way?

Love is in the catagory of ideas. Love is a pattern in the brain. Patterns in our world are made up of various arrangements of the basic particles of matter inclulding protons, neutrons, and electrons; but not so much photons.

Of course, love is started by various forms of information transmission, including perception of the beloved, and that can involve photons.

 

[dad]

Love is in the catagory of ideas. Love is a pattern in the brain...

No. Love is God, which is a spiritual force and reality and presence. Our brain if anything is a conduit for some love, but also a hindrance to the heart.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Do you demand the answer to avoid illogicalities, or would you do with an illogical answer? Why?.

No & no. You might try answering the question "Why is logic true?".

Love weighs exactly as much as electricity and the wind.

The win weighs billions of tons - there's a lot of wind. Electricity also weighs many tons for a similar reason. How much does love weigh?

 

[MoreCoffee]

Logic is a tool of cognition. It is propositions that are true or false. A true proposition is one that corresponds to reality. You wouldn't say that logic is true any more than you would say a rock is true. You could say it is true that logic is a tool to validate reasoning.

The law of non-contradiction (two antithetical propositions cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense) is propositional and a part of the rules/laws of logic. I think your answer is evading the question.

Love is real. It is an emotion. Love can be measured but the unit of measure proper to love is values, not weight. Just as you would not measure the length of a board in pounds or the color of a flower in inches, you don't measure love in a unit of measure inappropriate to love. You measure love against your own hierarchy of values. I love my wife more than the next door neighbor and I love my family more than a stranger on the street.

Love has no weight? Can it be detected by any means?

 

[Shemjaza]

Love has no weight? Can it be detected by any means?

It's a state that a mind can be in. Maybe if we had a better understanding of how brains worked we might have a definitive test for if a brain contained patterns associated with feeling love, but we aren't there yet.

However we have much less accurate methods, like interpersonal interpretation, and some vague things to do with changes in breathing and iris dilation.


As an analogy, a piece of metal can have the property of being the temperature 200 degrees, and that is a real thing, but it doesn't mean "200 degrees" has weight.

 

[MoreCoffee]

It's a state that a mind can be in. Maybe if we had a better understanding of how brains worked we might have a definitive test for if a brain contained patterns associated with feeling love, but we aren't there yet.

However we have much less accurate methods, like interpersonal interpretation, and some vague things to do with changes in breathing and iris dilation.


As an analogy, a piece of metal can have the property of being the temperature 200 degrees, and that is a real thing, but it doesn't mean "200 degrees" has weight.

Does your reply mean that love has no weight?

 

[quatona]

No & no. You might try answering the question "Why is logic true?".

It´s a loaded question. I do not agree with the statement "logic is true". It´s word salad.
Logic is a tool. It´s a tool to keep language meaningful.
If I answered your question "Logic is true because the grass is green", I´m sure you´d find the answer unsatisfactory - simply because it violates logic.

The win weighs billions of tons - there's a lot of wind.

Really?

Electricity also weighs many tons for a similar reason.

Does it?

How much does love weigh?

Given your above premises (which I do not agree with, though), i.e. "Because there is a lot of X X must weigh many tons", you would have to conclude that love weighs many tons, as well.

 

[quatona]

No & no. You might try answering the question "Why is logic true?".

It´s a loaded question. I do not agree with the statement "logic is true". It´s word salad.
Logic is a tool. It´s a tool to keep language meaningful.
If I answered your question "Logic is true because the grass is green", I´m sure you´d find the answer unsatisfactory - simply because it violates logic.

The win weighs billions of tons - there's a lot of wind.

Really?

Electricity also weighs many tons for a similar reason.

Does it?

How much does love weigh?

Given your above premises (which I do not agree with, though), i.e. "Because there is a lot of X X must weigh many tons", you would have to conclude that love weighs many tons, as well.

 

[sandybay]

Why is logic true?

If you knew what logic was you would not allow yourself to ask that question.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I am chuckling and chortling at these "answers".

 

[quatona]

I am chuckling and chortling at these "answers".

So was I when reading your "questions".

 

[Shemjaza]

Does your reply mean that love has no weight?

In the sense that it has no effect on gravity, yes.

I am chuckling and chortling at these "answers".

I'd appreciate you pointing out the flaw in my statement, rather then just being snide.

 

[lewiscalledhimmaster]

You want the philosophy subforum for this topic.

Yip.

 

[MoreCoffee]

In the sense that it has no effect on gravity, yes.

Excellent, Love has no mass.

It took a long time for that to be recognised. But love exists, right?

How did something massless evolve?

I'd appreciate you pointing out the flaw in my statement, rather then just being snide.

What's snide about chuckling and chortling at the answers given? Some of them were funny. Some were absurd. Some dodged the questions and some of the dodges were very elaborate and that made me chuckle too.

 

[sandybay]

Excellent, Love has no mass.

It took a long time for that to be recognised. But love is exists, right?

How did something massless evolve?

Love does not "exist", it is a mental concept, feelings do not "exist" anymore than ideas or gods "exist".
If you don't understand why not look up the word "exist" in a dictionary?