law of thought

American  

noun

1. any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.

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law of thought

Thesis, antithesis and synthesis, a Fichtean formula, is generalized by Hegel into the perpetual law of thought.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

The fundamental law of thought which underlies this mode of proof was clearly recognized by Pythagoras.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

From this law of thought follows directly the third, viz., the Principle of the Excluded Middle.

From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by M. Beer

It is because we cannot realize the law of thought transference.

From The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

Now what makes it natural to call this principle a law of thought is that it is by thought rather than by outward observation that we persuade ourselves of its necessary truth.

From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell