- I just attempted to make a logically valid/sound argument in my new “canonical” website, and realised that I just can’t yet, I’m way off, I’m absolutely brand new
- I need to learn the nuts and bolts, and get reps in the basics, before I can use this to critique my own thinking in a rigorous way
Claude, curriculum
Here’s your learning path. The key highlights:
The single most important free resource is forall x: Calgary, a full-featured open-source textbook covering validity, truth-functional logic, natural deduction, and first-order logic with exercises and solutions Openlogicproject. It’s available as a free PDF from forallx.openlogicproject.org and its notation and proof systems are supported by Carnap, a free online logic teaching platform StudyLib that will check your work automatically.
The document walks through four phases tailored to your style — starting with the concepts you need right now (validity vs. soundness, which would have immediately diagnosed the problem in your Argument 1), building up to symbolic logic, and then practical application. It also includes a full worked example of your manifesto’s argument done the way a philosopher would do it, and a reference table of the key distinctions to internalise.
The gentle nudge on Wittgenstein is in there too — Russell is a much better model for what you’re actually trying to do.