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We need those for further exploration into my first logic statement. Here is the other piece of my foundation,

If emotion is a usually intense feeling
And feeling is capacity to respond emotionally
Then you can't have one without the other

So, to summarize; we have decided that to have reason you must use logic, and if you use logic you must have reason. We have also deduced that to have emotion you must use feelings, and if you have feelings they must have emotions behind them. Just to clear things up, these lines of logic were taken directly from the dictionary definition of the words, and if that's not getting down to the basics, I don't know what is. Alright, back to proving line A:

If feeling is capacity to respond emotionally
And capacity to respond emotionally denotes use
of reason
Then to have emotion you must use reason

Now, I could stop right here, because as stated above, you cannot have reason without logic, and intellect is a definition of reason, therefore I have proven line A. But I will go further, just to make sure no holes can be punched in my argument. In this logic statement line B is questionable. How can I assert that capacity to respond denotes use of reason? Well,

If reason is a statement offered in explanation or
justification
And a response is an answer or reply
Then you must use reason to respond

Again, this is dictionary speak, hard to argue with. So I feel that line A of my original logic statement has been proven. Let us review,

If you are capable of expressing your emotions you
must have intellect
And intellect denotes use of logic
Then emotions must be logical

Well, why stop here. Line B's statement could be questioned. Why does intellect denote use of logic? To answer this I will give you yet another logic statement,

If reason is the power to think: intellect
And you can't have reason without logic
Then intellect denotes use of logic

I don't like to make things complicated, so again, straight from the dictionary. If there is a problem here, my friend Webster is always up for a discussion (but between you and me, he can get kind of technical and he is universally accepted).

The last step in the process is easy, logically speaking.

If my argument is proven logic
And your opinion opposes mine
Then you are wrong

Wow! That was fun to say! On a serious note, I feel my previous arguments more than disprove my opponents "logic." But just in case you had a hard time with that, lets summarize:

Emotions are feelings
Feelings are a response
To respond you must use reason
To use reason you must use logic
Emotions are logical.

Tomorrow, my conclusion.

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