| | Logic Tradition, and the Onto-logical Connection - Jack E. Marsh, Jr. - The Examined Life On-Line Philosophy Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | I argue that the law of identity (A is A), and thus the laws of non-contradiction and the excluded middle, requires metaphysical commitments necessary to guarantee the truth function of the conditional form. |
 | | The law of identity on which the two laws depend or imply render the entire procedure problematic. |
 | | This is not justification for chucking the laws of non-contradiction and the excluded middle, we might call these the conditions of intelligibility because their denial implicitly affirms them and without such laws conversation and ascertaining meaning, however provisional, may not be possible. |
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