✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Law of thought - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org · 1,903 words · saved by 1 readers

The laws of thought are fundamental axiomatic rules upon which rational discourse itself is often considered to be based. The formulation and clarification of such rules have a long tradition in the history of philosophy and logic. Generally they are taken as laws that guide and underlie everyone's thinking, thoughts, expressions, discussions, etc. However, such classical ideas are often questioned or rejected in more recent developments, such as intuitionistic logic, dialetheism and fuzzy logic. According to the 1999 Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy,[1] laws of thought are laws by which or in accordance with which valid thought proceeds, or that justify valid inference, or to which all valid deduction is reducible. Laws of thought are rules that apply without exception to any subject matter of thought, etc.; sometimes they are said to be the object of logic[further explanation needed]. The term, rarely used in exactly the same sense by different authors, has long been associated wit

Law of thought - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Logical principles In logic and philosophy , " laws of thought " is a dated expression referring to three logical principles: the law of identity (LOI), the law of non-contradiction (LNC), and the law of excluded middle (LEM). [ 1 ] The expression "laws of thought" gained prominence through its use by idealist and conceptualist logicians such as George Boole (1815–1864). Boole named his second logic book An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabiliti

Explore this link on the map →

related reading