What happens after death?

[Adrianis]

I am sure most of us here are familiar with Boolean logic. What exactly is your point? It is completely useless to us in this discussion, and despite its name informal logic is a well documented field. Do you really want to be a pedant and challenge the use of the world "logical", as it has been established in the English language for centuries, because our discussion is not concerned with mathematics? Speaking of, the logical statement: [IF there is no physical evidence to support the idea of an afterlife THEN an afterlife exists] is mathematically illogical. Is that knowledge helpful to us in any way? It is not, because we can infer that quite easily without validating it.

The reason I felt it would be useful is that throughout this discussion people have been saying this is logical, that is illogical etc etc A. without establishing the premise for their conclusion and B. are using it as a general term for what makes sense or is based on evidence etc.

Do you really want to be a pedant and challenge the use of the world "logical", as it has been established in the English language for centuries, because our discussion is not concerned with mathematics?

Apologies for the misunderstanding, that was not at all my intention. That's just what it is, I didn't mean that it can only be used when concerning mathematics.

[IF there is no physical evidence to support the idea of an afterlife THEN an afterlife exists] is mathematically illogical

Yeh you're right, that is illogical, because the conclusion was not drawn directly from the premise.

Earlier in this discussion you said this,

The point is: there is no evidence that suggest an afterlife exists, and there is strong circumstantial evidence to suggest that the idea was created because people are afraid to die. It is illogical to believe in it.

That's one of several examples in this discussion where logic was used where it shouldn't be. Here's why,

IF death is not merely a state of nothingness
AND
IF we go to a place after we die
AND
IF christian ideas are true
THEN after we die we go to heaven

That is a logical conclusion. It doesn't matter whether any of the premises are true, or based on fact or material evidence, it is logical by nature of the process. I don't believe it is true, but I do believe that it is a logical conclusion. That is Formal logic, not Boolean logic - Boolean Logic defines true/false statements and is more directly related to mathematics