Would the quote sound as bad to you if “logic” was replaced with “reasoning”?
As per Postel’s law, if a word has both a colloquial meaning and a technical meaning, the latter is not what I want, and there’s a decent synonym for the former, I personally use the synonym instead (e.g. “usefulness” instead of “utility”, “substantial” or “sizeable” instead of “significant”, etc.), but as per Postel’s law I don’t demand that other people do the same, especially if the colloquial meaning is way more widespread overall.
Would the quote sound as bad to you if “logic” was replaced with “reasoning”?
As per Postel’s law, if a word has both a colloquial meaning and a technical meaning, the latter is not what I want, and there’s a decent synonym for the former, I personally use the synonym instead (e.g. “usefulness” instead of “utility”, “substantial” or “sizeable” instead of “significant”, etc.), but as per Postel’s law I don’t demand that other people do the same, especially if the colloquial meaning is way more widespread overall.