The tools and systems designed to test, validate, or automate logical reasoning, ranging from ancient syllogism generators to modern AI "reasoning engines." These technologies promise to make your thinking more rigorous, but often just expose how sloppy your thinking really is. This includes debate flowcharts that end in loops, decision trees with too many branches, and "rationality apps" that ask you to assign Bayesian probabilities to your dating life. The most common metalogical technology is the "but actually" guy at a party, who functions as a primitive, flesh-based logic-checker that no one invited.
Metalogical Technologies *Example: "I used a metalogical technology app to decide whether to break up with my partner. I input all the variables, and it returned a 73.4% probability of long-term unhappiness. I showed her the results, and she said the app hadn't accounted for the variable of her being furious at me for using an app. The logic was sound, but the outcome was not."*
by Abzugal February 14, 2026
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