Even the rules by which logic operates, such as the ‘law of non-contradiction’ (that contradictory statements cannot both be true in the same sense at the same time) and ‘the law of the excluded middle’ (that for any proposition, either it, or its negation, must be true), have to be taken on the recommendation of intuition – and such intuition may be only partially reliable. These are choices, not laws: outside of courts there are no laws, only regularities. And these so-called laws of Aristotle were not intended as a description of how humans actually do think, but to suggest how a totally
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