Eugene Gendlin on Logic

Logic, math, and graph paper are quintessentially human creations—nothing natural comes in equal units that can be substituted in logical slots. Every leaf and cell is a little different.

—Eugene Gendlin

The actual order is supralogical. It is more than a given logic can represent, although a given logic can fit some given aspect or relation.

—Eugene Gendlin

The interrelation of all…possible meanings is so complex as to exceed any one logical scheme. … It is supralogical, or, if you wish, prelogical, capable of functioning in the creation and application of very many different logical schemes.

—Eugene Gendlin

We must not model nature on mathematics and logic… Math and logic are exclusively human processes. If we model nature on mathematics or anything that is only human, we exclude all forms of life but ours. In the case of mathematics we drop ourselves out too.

—Eugene Gendlin

…we surely need not give nature and bodily life process over to fixed units and logic—however powerful their use is. We need not think of nature as artificially constructed out of separate pieces…

—Eugene Gendlin