Thursday, August 16, 2012

10. The grey perception or logic or hat


I AM FAIR/I AM CONSISTENT/  I BALANCE/ I AM OBJECTIVE 
(or negatively I do not) therefore I am

The balanced formally perfect logic


The mathematical formally  perfect argument within a mathematic theory like Euclidean geometry is an excellent example of the neutral perfect grey logic. 
Unfortunately rarely in our life the information is adequate and the reasoning is so perfectly organized to have a mathematically consistent and valid logic.
In every day life we may have to resort to guessing and bias. That is why we utilize the colored logics. 
The grey logic is considered dull and without grace.
Neverthless this logic also can be positive or negative. 
With this grey logic we have the chance, in group meetings, to discuss and analyze the facts, numbers, events.
The facts, just the facts in a neutral statement is often the demand in this logic.
Of course this may be misleading because the sampling and collection of the facts already contains a negative or a positive bias.
Facts and numbers. Who is giving the facts?
In E. de Bono 6-thinking hats method this grey logic is presented as the white hat.
The grey logic is also the probabilistic logic of uncertainty. Not only two valued True or False, but rather three or many valued : True, false, or uncertain and the uncertainty may have quantitative percentages (20% 60% etc) like probabilities.
Usually this is the way that business men think in analysing scenarios.