A Method for Other Logic

Think of a concept.
Consider its social position.
Consider the concept implied by that social position.
Add an attribute to the original concept that would make the implied concept meaningless.

Predicate Logic 1
Think of a concept.
Think of a broader concept that includes it.
Think of that broader concept as a concept included within the one you first thought of.
Consider how the things that broader concept refers to would have to be transformed if you thought of it this way.
Mount Fuji = a mountain
A mountain = Mount Fuji
All mountains are Mount Fuji

Predicate Logic 2
Think of a concept.
Think of another concept that shares an attribute with it.
Think of the two concepts as the same thing.
Dogs are cute
Children are cute
Therefore, dogs are children
Dogs and children are connected by a predicate even though they belong to different classes.

Amplification
Think of a concept.
Amplify an attribute of that concept.
Think of the amplified attribute as an attribute of that concept.
Example = a lighter that burns like mad, itself burning to nothing
A circuit of self-reference.

Think of a concept.
Think of a concept opposed to it.
Think of a concept somewhere between that concept and the one you first thought of.
Consider what attributes it would have.
Example = a substance somewhere between water and ice (Kiteretsu Daihyakka)

Think of a concept.
Consider the name it has been given.
Think of another name that sounds similar.
Connect the concept bearing that other name with the concept bearing the original name.
Butsumetsu = zetsumetsu
On the verge of butsumetsu
An image emerges

Translator’s note: Butsumetsu is a day designated as particularly inauspicious in the traditional Japanese six-day calendrical cycle known as rokuyō. Weddings and other celebrations are often avoided on this day. Here, its sound is linked to zetsumetsu (“extinction”): “on the verge of extinction” becomes “on the verge of butsumetsu.”

Think of a concept.
Consider its attributes.
Consider an attribute opposite to one of those attributes.
Consider that opposite attribute as an attribute of the concept you first thought of.
Example = a prisoner detective

Think of a concept.
Think of something else similar to it in form.
Combine that other concept with the concept you first thought of.

Circular Reasoning
Think of a cause B to explain how a certain result A comes about.
Think of A as a cause that explains how B comes about.

Infinite Regress
Think of explaining the cause of a result as requiring an endless succession of further causes.

Definition by Negation
Define an object or a situation through negation.
“This is not a pipe.”

On the Contradiction Between Action and Utterance.
Someone running backwards while shouting, “Wait for me!”
A bride throwing her wedding ring at the groom while saying, “I do.”

“You’re kind of F-like.”
“You’re kind of 3-like, aren’t you?”
What does it mean to say “similar” or “-like” when not a single sound, predicate, or form is shared?

Think of a proposition
“It’s raining today.”
Think of a proposition that negates it.
“It’s not raining today.”
Think of a situation in which both propositions are true at the same time

Think of a proposition.
Consider it apart from the situation (state of affairs) that suggests it and to which it would ordinarily apply.
Think of it as a proposition that still holds even when separated from that state of affairs.
Consider what state of affairs the proposition would correspond to when thought of in this way.
In Go Ohinata’s Oyatsu, there is the line “The elevator’s got me trapped!” Does it mean “I can’t get out of the elevator,” or “The elevator has forced me into some room and locked me in”? The words alone leave this undecidable.

Think of a proposition that seems to lead readily to a particular conclusion.
“Whenever Ultraman shows up to defeat a monster, Dad’s never around, right?”
“What? Dad’s Ultraman?”
Reverse one of the proposition’s two terms and draw a conclusion.
“More like the monster.” (Go Ohinata, Oyatsu)

Notes

Consider the relationship between the “rules” within a shogi match and the “rules” of shogi as a game.

Can people really think deductively at all?

Is laughter brought about through the use of a particular language intelligible only to those who speak that language?

In logic, logical form is what matters; what you substitute into it does not matter. In Other Logic, however, what is substituted matters more than logical form. It therefore also drives logical form itself and is irreducible.