We are plainly talking about mind control fed by a distorted and manipulated educational system. Polylogism is a road paved with disaffection and hatred which has created a world that is now fractured and broken. Polylogism is the doctrine that there is not one correct logic, one correct method of reasoning necessarily binding on all human beings, but that there are many logics, each valid for some and invalid for the others. The polylogist divides peoples into groups, and holds that each group has by nature (or creates for itself by choice) its own distinctive method of inference based on its own distinctive logical laws, so that the inferences that are entirely logical for one group are entirely illogical for the others . . .
A polylogist holds, there is no common or universal logic to serve as the objective standard and arbiter when people disagree. There is no way for members of opposing groups, with opposing views, to resolve their disputes; it is useless to appeal to facts or to evidence for this purpose, since the minds which engage in the process of reasoning obey different rules of thinking.
The movement that first launched the doctrine of polylogism in a culturally influential form was Marxism. Aware of the fact that communism cannot be defended by reason, the Marxists proceeded to turn the fallacy of polylogism into a formal philosophic doctrine, claiming that logic varies with men’s economic class, and that objections to communist doctrine may be dismissed as expressions of “bourgeois logic.” Thus, vilification of an opponent replaces analysis of his argument . . . . The father of polylogism, Kant, is credited as the first philosopher to deliberately sever logic from reality.
Actually, polylogism is not a theory of logic—it is a denial of logic. Close inspection of the term suggests, it means: many logics. One logic for the rich and one for the poor (this was how the Marxists characterized the "bourgeois class consciousness" / "proletariat class consciousness" dichotomy in classical Marxism), one kind of logic for men and another for women, one for blacks, one for whites, one for Asians, one for Moslem's, a different logic for every identifiable group. Of course, it will follow that no one’s statements are objectively true, following the path of a single correct logic. The most anyone can produce is ideological rationalizations for his own group using its provincial logic. The role of polylogism in multiculturalism is also clear if we think about it. Polylogists assert that because of their different origins and cultural collective experiences, different ethnic groups live in different cultural universes. Blacks’ having had ancestors who were slaves, for example, gives them a different collective experience than whites. What is true according to one culture isn’t necessarily true for another. And the way you think is culturally determined. Hence the T shirt: "It’s a black thing; you wouldn’t understand."
So what’s the solution? There isn’t a single, easy or quick solution. We didn’t get into our present morass overnight, and we won’t get out of it overnight. polylogism is not a household word. I am all for making it so. It may be unfamiliar, but it can be made clear, as the doctrine that different groups think according to fundamentally different logical principles and so live in fundamentally different worlds is a fallacy. The answer is that this doesn’t make sense – but nothing short of a potentially demanding excursion into the laws of logic will explain this. Education is the key for a more logical viewpoint. We need to understand the foundations of correct human thought. This is as important as any form of moral or intellectual instruction.
