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...
It may be a question whether that formula of reasoning, which is called the “dictum” of Aristotle,” de omni et nullo”, expresses a primary law of human reasoning or not; but it is no question that it expresses a general truth in Logic. Now that truth is made manifest in all its generality by reflection upon a single instance of its application.
George Boole (1815-1864)
He was of course referring to the Latin phrase fully contiguous; dictum de omni et nullo. In paraphrased English, so it goes; it was said of all and none, or to also say, the maxim all or none. In his 1854 book An Investigation of The Laws of Thought, further maintaining, Boole wrote on…
That which may be regarded as essential in the spirit and procedure of the Aristotelian, and of all cognate systems of Logic, is the attempted classification of the allowable forms of inference, and the distinct reference of those forms, collectively or individually, to some general principle of an axiomatic nature, such as the “dictum of Aristotle:” Whatsoever is affirmed or denied of the genus may in the same sense be affirmed or denied of any species included under that genus.
The noted Greek philosopher earlier to the dictum stated quite clearly regarding every premiss, each consideration per objective if you will…
Every premiss states that something either is or must be, or may be the attribute of something else.
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Organon / Analytica Priora, Book I
Then to thematically combine, William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) well articulated in his book Elementary Lessons in Logic Deductive and Inductive published in 1870 (see Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 225)…
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.
Facilitating neo-intellectualism are of course 21st century societies’ persistence then insistence toward conditions, exceptions, arbitraries therefore egregious inconsistencies otherwise personalities’ propensities prerogatives, preferences as well juvenile fancies, adolescent whimsies or childish fantasies as evidences, arguments thus premises.
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Well sought per covetous infatuation, un-satiated the
lust
Oh, what fuss the lost of time by respect, regard and
trust
Disgusted by the patience, the reluctance to rightly
negotiate
Prating instead, castrating o’er deathbed as
disparities conflate
Frailties abate not, rather one’s state of Self quite
fraught
All a fright as the human lot mid rock and stone well
caught
Fuck then roam, aft’ feast later moan, ergo fight on wet
loam
The mud sanguine with blood per presumption’s syndrome
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
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