12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 225

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...

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PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 225

~ Law of Consensual Unity / Part 1 ~

            The law, to logically propose, should articulate the simplest of conditions; if consensual then unity else dissension then disunity. The syllogism could be constructed in sort of pseudo code (if you will) so to further emphasize…

if consensual then

 unity

else not consensual then

not unity

done/exit

The law simply, concisely indicates two states or conditions; True or False, On or Off, One (1) or Zero (0), This or That, Be or Not Be. Hence respectfully, invokes the third law of thought as explained by William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) in his book Elementary Lessons in Logic Deductive and Inductive published in 1870…

These laws describe the very simplest truths, in which all people must agree, and which at the same time apply to all notions which we can conceive. It is impossible to think correctly and avoid evident self-contradiction unless we observe what are called the Three Primary Laws of Thought, which may be stated as follows:

1. The Law of Identity. Whatever is, is.

2. The Law of Contradiction. Nothing can both be and not be.

3. The Law of Excluded Middle. Everything must either be

    or not be.

Though these laws when thus stated may seem absurdly obvious...I have found that students are seldom able to see at first their full meaning and importance.

            To state again (see Proposition, Problem & Poem Nos. 211-213), as much the human specie possesses the peculiar or unique ability to reason among nonhuman, instinctive species, so simultaneously even inseparably possesses the constant prerogative and the consistent preference to consent or dissent, to accept or reject, to agree or disagree, to continue or discontinue at the conclusive end of each and every reasoning sequence. That is to say, at end of all reasoning sequences is True or False, On or Off, One (1) or Zero (0), This or That, Be or Not Be, as represented by a conclusion  either consensual or dissension, either acceptance or rejection, either agreement or disagreement, either continuance or discontinuance, else another similarly.

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Logic insofar Boolean thus seen, it seems, in forms algebraic
Rhymes of recent times while archaic and Aramaic upon mosaic
Gates, tables, expressions as codes scribed, inked then finessed
Till hammered and chiseled Romanesque, white as marble tress

His fingers brush the writ exegetical, as feathers along her skin
She sighs yet his eyes on each text, every verse, so it all begins
To spin towards spun, as wrung then contend, the end syllogistic
For horns of plenty hence casuistic the many, willingly parasitic 

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

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