Anybody want to speculate on the shooters odd "logic" style of argumentation?

[Very_Boring_Name]

If you read the stuff this guy wrote, every assertion he makes is formatted in a logic sentence form (All A are B. C is A therefore C is B). It's the kind of stuff I had to learn when I studied philosophy in high school and we went over logic. What I find strange is he actually uses this format for every single assertion he makes, even though it's completely unnecessary. It just comes off as really really odd. Like for example, he writes:

Every United States Military recruit at MEPS in Phoenis is receiving one mini bible before the tests.

Jared Loughner is a United States Military recruit at MEPS in Phoenix.

Therefore, Jared Loughner is receiving one mini bible before the tests.


There are a dozen more examples like this one. Is there some psychological reason for him to do this?

[drm604]

1. He's mentally ill.

I think it's pretty much a given at this point that the man is mentally ill. His way of arguing is probably a symptom of that.

[provis99]

2. It's also ironic, given how illogical and incoherent the shooter is.

[Lucinda]

3. Ahh good catch! He's supposedly has an interest in philosophy.

That makes sense. :hi:

[Generic Brad]

10. Intrest but no comprehension

[niceypoo]

4. He isn't using logic

He is using logical fallacies, or 'illogic.'

[Very_Boring_Name]

5. I didn't say he was using logic. I said he was using a logic argument format

The argument itself doesn't have to be logical.

[vaberella]

6. What KO's countdown in rerun...there is a lot of philosophy for this guy.

Ayn Rand was one. They list a few of them, that might interest you.

[boppers]

7. "Is there some psychological reason"?

Yes. He's convincing himself that he is sane, and rational, because he can rationalize his thoughts.

[southernyankeebelle]

8. This man isn't mentally ill. He uses the buzz words of Fox. Funny thing is when

your watching MSNBC they are showing a picture of the young man with long hair as if he is a hippie. But the picture I have seen on the net shows a young man with short hair and looks like a kid who goes to college.

[GSLevel9]

9. I've heard Schizophrenia as a possibility. nt

[Odin2005]

11. That is typical for paranoid schizophrenia.

[slackmaster]

12. I speculate that he's a nut jobbie, possibly paranoid schizophrenic

But we already knew that.

[skip fox]

13. He may be crazy, but not without meaning. For instance: "commerce"

is death, dying, a spreading absence before the stain.

[Brickbat]

14. He's clearly mentally ill. I've read many writings by people with schizophrenia that tracks in the

same way.

[Duer 157099]

15. Mark Potok, who was on with Keith yesterday, seems to think that he may have

followed this guy's "teachings":

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/spring/full-colon-miller