The Laws of Thought
Subtitle: A thematic compilation
Publisher: Author through Lulu.com
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
Table of contents: title: 1.	Chapter One	9; title: 1.	The Law of Identity	9; title: 2.	The Law of Contradiction	12; title: 3.	The Law of the Excluded Middle	15; title: 2.	Chapter Two	18; title: 1.	True or False	18; title: 2.	Branches of Logic	20; title: 3.	Tools of Logic	22; title: 4.	Axioms of Logic	24; title: 3.	Chapter Three	27; title: 1.	Ground of the Laws	27; title: 2.	Functions of the Laws	32; title: 3.	More on Credibility	35; title: 4.	Chapter Four	38; title: 1.	Internal Inconsistency	38; title: 2.	The Stolen Concept Fallacy	41; title: 5.	Chapter Five	45; title: 1.	Definition	45; title: 2.	The Liar Paradox	47; title: 3.	The Barber Paradox	50; title: 6.	Chapter Six	53; title: 1.	The Tetralemma	53; title: 2.	Nagarjuna’s Misinterpretation	56; title: 3.	Neither Real Nor Unreal	58; title: 4.	Common Way vs. Middle Way	63; title: 7.	Chapter Seven	67; title: 1.	Phenomenology	67; title: 2.	Knowledge is Based On Appearance	70; title: 8.	Chapter Eight	75; title: 1.	Appearance and Other Large Concepts	75; title: 2.	Material, Mental, Intuitive, Abstract	80; title: 9.	Chapter Nine	86; title: 1.	Apprehension	86; title: 2.	Explications	88; title: 3.	Negation	93; title: 4.	Primaries	95; title: 10.	Chapter Ten	99; title: 1.	Logical Attitudes	99; title: 2.	Unity In Plurality	101; title: 11.	Chapter Eleven	106; title: 1.	Dialectical Reasoning	106; title: 2.	Genesis of Axioms	108; title: 3.	Paradoxical Propositions	110; title: 12.	Chapter Twelve	116; title: 1.	Contradiction	116; title: 2.	Varieties of Contradiction	118; title: 3.	Double Standards	120; title: 13.	Chapter Thirteen	123; title: 1.	Special Status of the Laws	123; title: 2.	Motors of Rational Thought	126; title: 3.	Cogito, Ergo Sum	127; title: 4.	Concerning Identity.	129; title: 14.	Chapter Fourteen	131; title: 1.	Appearance, Reality and Illusion	131; title: 2.	Existence and Non-existence	133; title: 15.	Chapter Fifteen	137; title: 1.	Poles of Duality	137; title: 2.	On the Liar paradox	139; title: 3.	Non-Aristotelian “Logic”	141; title: 4.	Postmodern “Logic”	144; title: 16.	Chapter Sixteen	146; title: 1.	Negation in Adduction	146; title: 2.	Positive and Negative Phenomena	150; title: 3.	Positive Experience Precedes Negation	153; title: 4.	Negation is an Intention	156; title: 17.	Chapter Seventeen	160; title: 1.	Formal Consequences	160; title: 2.	Negation and the Laws of Thought	163; title: 3.	Pure Experience	168; title: 4.	Consistency is Natural	170; title: 18.	Chapter Eighteen	174; title: 1.	The Uniformity Principle	174; title: 2.	The Principle of Induction	178; title: 3.	Regarding Husserl	181; title: 4.	The Flexibility of Induction	183; title: 19.	Chapter Nineteen	186; title: 1.	Briefly Put	186; title: 2.	Antagonism to the Laws	188; title: 3.	Counterarguments	190; title: 4.	Our Pedestrian Path	192; title: 20.	Chapter Twenty	196; title: 1.	Ontological Status of the Laws	196; title: 2.	The Need for a Subject	198; title: 3.	Fuzzy Logic	200; title: 4.	Stick to Logic	204; title: 21.	Chapter Twenty One	206; title: 1.	Ups and Downs of Aristotelianism	206; title: 2.	Aristotle Bashing	208; title: 3.	Aristotle’s Dynamism	213; title: 22.	Chapter Twenty Two	216; title: 1.	How to Validate Logic?	216; title: 2.	The Inductive Nature of Knowledge	218; title: 3.	The Crucial Role of Negation	220; title: 23.	Chapter Twenty Three	223; title: 1.	Truth vs. Proof	223; title: 2.	Double Negation	228; title: 24.	Chapter Twenty Four	231; title: 1.	Misleading Symbolism	231; title: 2.	Upping the Ante	234; title: 25.	Chapter Twenty Five	237; title: 1.	Mitigating Clarifications	237; title: 2.	Examples	239; title: 3.	Doing Rather than Talking	241; title: 4.	Imprecise Language	242; title: 26.	Chapter Twenty Six	247; title: 1.	Cognitive Virtues	247; title: 2.	The Absurdity of the Antitheses	251; title: References	255; title: Figures; title: 1.	Definite and Indefinite terminology		202; title: 2.	Visualizations of Negation			233