1 The Whats and Whys of Logic It is the function of the wise man to know order.—Aristotle What is logic? And why in the world would anyone want to study it? Isn’t it just a bunch of incomprehensible and arbitrary rules that no one really follows anyway? What good does it do? To most people, logic is an unknown language about an unknown realm, where everything is turned upside down and no one with an IQ below 300 is allowed. You can see it in the panic on their faces when you just mention the word