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law of thought

noun

  1. any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.


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Thesis, antithesis and synthesis, a Fichtean formula, is generalized by Hegel into the perpetual law of thought.

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The law of Causality is the most important law of thought, after that of Identity.

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But since I used the phrase “laws of thought,†the mistress perhaps supposed that a “law of thought†has something to do with thinking and seemed to imagine that I wished to impute to the maid some moral defect of an unimportant nature.

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These eminent mathematicians were anticipated by the empirical philosopher who would not pronounce that the “law of thought†that A is either in the place B or not is true until he had looked to make sure.

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Consequently, it established as the first law of thought the Principle of Identity, which runs as follows: A = A, i.e., each thing, each being, is like itself; it possesses an individuality of its own, peculiar to itself.

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