The Laws of Thought

The Laws of Thought
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Western logic, science and philosophy are based on "Three Laws of Thought".

1. The law of identity:
A thing is what it is.
It can't be something else,
at the same time, and in the same respect.

P = P
not(P) = not(P)

2. The law of noncontradiction:
A thing cannot be both true and false at the same time.

Not( P and not(P))

3. The law of the excluded middle:
Either p is true or p is false;
one or the other, but not both at the same time.

P or not(P)

These laws are in conflict with observed reality and need to be reexamined.

1. Law number one is in conflict with Special Relativity. The measure of a
thing is relative to the observer. For example, various observers see the
color of a LASER beam differently depending upon their velocity relative to
the beam. Of course, the hedging phrase "in the same respect" qualifies the
error by suggesting that we ignore more fundamental laws which render law
number one invalid.

2. Law number two is in conflict with quantum and classical physics. Things
are composites of P's and not(P)'s properties where the P's have a clockwise
sense, and the not(P)'s have a counter-clockwise sense. ( Plus and minus
charges, hypercharges, baryon number, etc.) This can be expressed in
classical physics as: period * precession = (mass(A) * G / C^3) * (mass(B) *
G / C^3)

3. Law number three also ignores the properties mentioned in 2. P cannot
exist without not(P). Zero is, in fact, the null point between P (
clockwise) and not(P) ( counter-clockwise) from which time and space arises.
( Or more correctly, is perceived.) The "excluded middle" is light, or more
correctly, energy times distance.

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