The critical insight that formal logic itself carries cultural and historical baggage—that what counts as "logical" is shaped by who got to define logic in the first place. Western formal logic, with its excluded middle and its linear deductions, isn't the only possible logic system. Indigenous logics, Eastern logics, feminist logics—these aren't illogical; they're differently logical. The Theory of Logical Privilege argues that elevating one logical system as universal and objective is itself a power move, not a discovery about the nature of thought.
Theory of Logical Privilege "He keeps saying my argument isn't logical because it doesn't follow his syllogisms. But I'm using relational logic, which values context over categories. Your Theory of Logical Privilege is showing—you think your logic is the only logic."
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 22, 2026
Get the Theory of Logical Privilege mug.The critical insight that formal logic itself carries cultural and historical baggage—that what counts as "logical" is shaped by who got to define logic in the first place. Western formal logic, with its excluded middle and its linear deductions, isn't the only possible logic system. Indigenous logics, Eastern logics, feminist logics—these aren't illogical; they're differently logical. The Theory of Logical Privilege argues that elevating one logical system as universal and objective is itself a power move, not a discovery about the nature of thought.
"He keeps saying my argument isn't logical because it doesn't follow his syllogisms. But I'm using relational logic, which values context over categories. Your Theory of Logical Privilege is showing—you think your logic is the only logic."
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 22, 2026
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