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

As he has himself said, there is scarcely one of his poems which does not call attention to some moral sentiment, or to a general principle or law of thought, of our intellectual constitution.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen

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

This necessary relation between the à priori and à posteriori elements of knowledge is not a mere subjective law of thought.

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

It is both a law of thought and a law of things.

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

Instantly is suggested a unity underlying our divided being, a law of thought abiding in mind itself,—not merely in your mind or mine, but in the mind and soul of man.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

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