It is also related to the Law of noncontradiction and the Law of excluded middle, two of the three traditional laws of thought.
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Therefore, we must suppose an infinite God as the First Cause of the world even though an actual infinity violates the laws of thought.
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Alternatively, if one wants to have reasonable discussion one may be laws of thought and inductive reasoning ( given the problem of induction ).
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Boole's unwavering acceptance of Aristotle's logic is emphasized by the historian of logic John Corcoran in an accessible introduction to " Laws of Thought"
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Many philosophers argue to the contrary, believing that, for example, the laws of thought cannot be revised and may be " held come what may ".
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It cannot have come into existence without an efficient cause ( since that would violate the law of causality, one of the basic laws of thought ).
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It is to be presumed fundamentally that the species, man, is a unity, and that " the same laws of thought are applicable to all men ".
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Laws of thought are rules that apply without exception to any subject matter of thought, etc .; sometimes they are said to be the object of logic.
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Like the law of the excluded middle, this principle is considered to be a law of thought in classical logic, but it is disallowed by intuitionistic logic.
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In 1854 George Boole published " An Investigation into Laws of Thought . . ., " which lays the foundations for Boolean algebra, which is later used in information retrieval.
