In 2002 Keats held a petition drive to pass the Law of Identity, A a " A, a law of logic, as statutory law in Berkeley, California.
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The Greek philosopher Aristotle stated the most basic building blocks of logic as the law of identity, the law of non-contradiction and the law of the excluded middle.
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Because the law of identity partitions its logical Universe into exactly two parts, it creates a dichotomy wherein the two parts are " mutually exclusive " and " jointly exhaustive ".
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The law of non-contradiction, along with its complement, the law of excluded middle ( the third of the three classic laws of thought ), are correlates of the law of identity ( the first of the three laws ).
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He defines the Principle of the Logical as an ideal matrix of the logical principles or laws of thought ( the law of identity, the law of non-contradiction, the law of excluded middle, the law of sufficient reason ).
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Objectivist philosophy derives its explanations of action and causation from the axiom of identity, calling causation " the law of identity applied to action . " According to Rand, it is entities that act, and every action is the action of an entity.
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For it can only hold true provisionally insofar as A is " different " from not-A . The Law of Identity, the purpose of which is to draw an absolute distinction between identity and difference, therefore contains difference as a necessary moment implicitly within it.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz claimed that the law of Identity, which he expresses as " Everything is what it is ", is the first primitive truth of reason which is affirmative, and the law of noncontradiction is the first negative truth ( " Nouv . Ess ."
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The axiom of existence is grasped in differentiating something from nothing, while the law of identity is grasped in differentiating one thing from another, i . e ., one's first awareness of the law of non-contradiction, another crucial base for the rest of knowledge.
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The term, rarely used in exactly the same sense by different authors, has long been associated with three equally ambiguous expressions : the law of identity ( ID ), the law of contradiction ( or non-contradiction; NC ), and the law of excluded middle ( EM ).
