Chris:

Isn't it the case that children use that law long before they can articulate it? They know it as if by instinct: red is not blue; one is not two; "Dad says no" is not "Dad says yes." But they don't tell me its the first (or second, depends on which order you use) law of thought or rule of logic. They just say that that is the way it is. They know. It's intrinsic to knowing. That's why, it seems to me, they are called interchangeably the Laws of Thought and the Rules of Logic. Though it isn't a deliberate attempt to do logic, yet it is an implicit part of thinking.

Just rambling as the thoughts come.

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John Vandervliet
Ontario, Canada
member of: Canadian Reformed Church
"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are" C.S Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism