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Question: Is this logically sound!? Does it make any sense !?
Near delirious from insomnia, I wrote this last night on Y/A:

<If I feel like it, I will explain!. If I don't explain, I didn't feel like it!.

Why would I feel or not feel like it!?

Do I decide to feel!?

If I decide to feel, why would I decide to feel like it!?

If I can't figure out why I would decide to feel like it, could I really decide!?

If I can figure out why I would decide to feel like it, I will explain!. If I don't explain, I didn't figure out why I would decide to feel like it!.>Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Interesting the things we think when not wholly conscious; probably why medicine-men and such took their peyote!.
So *do* you decide to feel!? You *can* decide to feel - at least sometimes!.
Keep the first line, get rid of the last line!. Over-all, great!.

Mr!. Wizard may be half right: feelings are not logical ({or are they!?})!. But it might help us to to keep things sorted as we piece our theories together!.
Then again, he may be showing an indigence of self-assurance - of always needing to be right (logical, arguable, provable); (lots of that going around)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The First line is good, I really liked it!. Its a good solid logic example!. The second line goes into the reasoning behind it, and the third goes deeper into the second line!. The rest of the poem seems to be following the example of the third line, Which is wondering whether you decide to feel or not!. It makes sense, but it isn't very fluent logic!. If it were me, I would cut out the first line and the last line, and keep the rest!. Its pretty darn good though, good job writing it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You are only required to explain anything to a worthy audience!.!.!. If you make a claim that x is true, the onus is on you to provide the evidence etc!. Feelings, whims, wishes, are not tools of cognition!. To make a claim and then not justify it, on the grounds of emotional reluctance is an abdication of philosophy - not to mention insulting to those of us worthy of an explanation!.

If you lack the introspective skills necessary to identify the reason for your own feelings you have no business venturing an opinion on the subject!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

does it have to make sense!? I would think simply by the fact that is doesnt make sense, that;s what makes it great!. I dont think logically sound should be the goal here!. i think it should be to make the reader think and youve done a good job!. my bf would love it! :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

If A, then B!. If not B, then not A!.

This is logically sound (assuming B always occurs after A)!. You might have also found the saying attractive because it's a chiasmus!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It is consistent, but it doesn't ever reveal 'it'!.
Sound like something trying to surface from your subconscious,
and not quite making it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

what we're feeling!.!.!. what we're feeling!.!.!. what we're feeling!.!.!.

sure makes senses to us although we didn't hear a sound!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Be glad that you from the beginning realised that you must make a choice, unless you want to die from insufficient sleepWww@QuestionHome@Com