A rose by any other name...

The word logic usually doesn't suggest diversity when it is explained or defined.  In fact, logic is usually the antithesis of diversity.  When a person is said to have acted or spoken logically, it is implied that the person acted like most people would in a situation.

One of the questions a person must answer in order to explain logic is why something behaves the way it does.  So, there is a scientific logic, a mathematical logic, a language logic, etc., to explain why certain things happen the way they do.  Of course, there are always anomalies, and it is the anomaly that makes for the interest in trying to explain logic because a good accounting for certain behaviors can account for the anomalies.

But, as I observe people, I see that they act differently from the way I would act.  And, if asked why they did something, their logic behind the action is different from mine.  That leads me to think that logic is not uniform; it doesn't cause people to think the same way.  The theory of relativity, for example, is one way to account for some of the behaviors one sees in space, but string theory is another way of explaining some of the same phenomena.

Some of the greatest debates between parents is about how to raise children.  Many people merely use the method that was used in raising them when a better method works a lot better.  For example, when two parents talk about whether a child should be disciplined for not eating what is cooked for a meal, one parent says he/she will whip the child for not cleaning the plate and honoring the person who cooked the meal because his/her own mother or father whipped him when growing up.  The other parent is aghast at such a response saying that whipping is too harsh a punishment.  The other parent thinks the child should stay at the table as long as it takes to eat the food, even if it is an hour later because that's what his/her parent did.

Neither response is the one I would choose and my response is not the response of others who know what my response is.  What causes this diversity of thinking in response to a simple, predictable behavior by a child?  

At the root of behavior is something genetic.  It's called personality.  Personality causes people to think differently, to have different logics from each other... a beauty in the eyes of the beholder idea.  I always thought that geometry was a simple idea.  It was about shapes and points, angles and areas.  But, there's more than one way to view geometry, I have found out.  There's plane geometry, for sure, but there's also solid geometry, spherical geometry, analytical geometry, enumerative geometry, differential or discrete geometry, inversive or stochastic geometry, and on and on.

Personality needs to be studied by the experts in the field in the worst way. It would certainly explain people's behavior better than anything available now.  Cognitive scientists have helped a great deal already in finding the mechanics of how people think.  Studies in personality would go a long way in explaining why people think the way they do.  Surely  we will begin to see such studies soon.