The study of how groups of people develop, adopt, and enforce shared systems of logic and reasoning. It examines why certain cultures value deductive reasoning over inductive, why academic departments feud over methodological approaches (qualitative vs. quantitative), and why some online communities have completely different standards for what counts as a "valid argument." It's the field that asks: if logic is universal, why do two reasonable people looking at the same facts so often reach completely different, yet internally logical, conclusions? The answer, usually, is tribalism.
Example: "A study in metalogical social sciences compared Reddit and Twitter argumentation styles. It found that Reddit favored lengthy, source-cited deductive arguments, while Twitter favored pithy, emotionally resonant assertions. Both communities considered the other's logic to be fundamentally broken, confirming that logic is often just whatever your in-group agrees upon."
by Abzugal February 14, 2026
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