Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Growing evidence suggests that we are living in a post-thinking era... Thomas Sowell...



Great quote by Thomas Sowell.

If to merely consider the "Three Primary Laws of Thought" as enumerated by economist and logician William Stanley Jevons (quote below), echoing centuries of other thinkers, logicians, scientists, economists, etc., one would find most if not all of politics obscenely breach the same "consistent" principles, particularly the last two years.

To simplify further, if to merely consider "inconsistency", not when personally, politically convenient but each and every occurrence, one would also find most if not all of politics obscenely manifest the same preceded always by covetousness, presumption and arrogance.

"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."

William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)

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

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