Table of Contents
1. Chapter One
1. The Law of Identity
2. The Law of Contradiction
3. The Law of the Excluded Middle
2. Chapter Two
1. True or False
2. Branches of Logic
3. Tools of Logic
4. Axioms of Logic
3. Chapter Three
1. Ground of the Laws
2. Functions of the Laws
3. More on Credibility
4. Chapter Four
1. Internal Inconsistency
2. The Stolen Concept Fallacy
5. Chapter Five
1. Definition
2. The Liar Paradox
3. The Barber Paradox
6. Chapter Six
1. The Tetralemma
2. Nagarjuna’s Misinterpretation
3. Neither Real Nor Unreal
4. Common Way vs. Middle Way
7. Chapter Seven
1. Phenomenology
2. Knowledge is Based On Appearance
8. Chapter Eight
1. Appearance and Other Large Concepts
2. Material, Mental, Intuitive, Abstract
9. Chapter Nine
1. Apprehension
2. Explications
3. Negation
4. Primaries
10. Chapter Ten
1. Logical Attitudes
2. Unity In Plurality
11. Chapter Eleven
1. Dialectical Reasoning
2. Genesis of Axioms
3. Paradoxical Propositions
12. Chapter Twelve
1. Contradiction
2. Varieties of Contradiction
3. Double Standards
13. Chapter Thirteen
1. Special Status of the Laws
2. Motors of Rational Thought
3. Cogito, Ergo Sum
4. Concerning Identity
14. Chapter Fourteen
1. Appearance, Reality and Illusion
2. Existence and Non-existence
15. Chapter Fifteen
1. Poles of Duality
2. On the Liar paradox
3. Non-Aristotelian “Logic”
4. Postmodern “Logic”
16. Chapter Sixteen
1. Negation in Adduction
2. Positive and Negative Phenomena
3. Positive Experience Precedes Negation
4. Negation is an Intention
17. Chapter Seventeen
1. Formal Consequences
2. Negation and the Laws of Thought
3. Pure Experience
4. Consistency is Natural
18. Chapter Eighteen
1. The Uniformity Principle
2. The Principle of Induction
3. Regarding Husserl
4. The Flexibility of Induction
19. Chapter Nineteen
1. Briefly Put
2. Antagonism to the Laws
3. Counterarguments
4. Our Pedestrian Path
20. Chapter Twenty
1. Ontological Status of the Laws
2. The Need for a Subject
3. Fuzzy Logic
4. Stick to Logic
21. Chapter Twenty-One
1. Ups and Downs of Aristotelianism
2. Aristotle Bashing
3. Aristotle’s Dynamism
22. Chapter Twenty-Two
1. How to Validate Logic?
2. The Inductive Nature of Knowledge
3. The Crucial Role of Negation
23. Chapter Twenty-Three
1. Truth vs. Proof
2. Double Negation
24. Chapter Twenty-Four
1. Misleading Symbolism
2. Upping the Ante
25. Chapter Twenty-Five
1. Mitigating Clarifications
2. Examples
3. Doing Rather than Talking
4. Imprecise Language
26. Chapter Twenty-Six
1. Cognitive Virtues
2. The Absurdity of the Antitheses
27. Chapter Twenty-Seven
1. Adapting the Laws of Thought
2. Two More Laws of Thought
28. Chapter Twenty-Eight
1. Zen’s Anti-logic
2. The Vanity of the Tetralemma
29. Chapter Twenty-Nine
1. Modern Symbolic Logic
2. The Existential Import Doctrine
Addendum (on infinite regression and circularity)
Main References
Diagrams
8.1 – Existence, appearance, reality and illusion
8.2 – A classification of appearances
20.1 – Definite and indefinite terminology
24.1 – Visualizations of negation
29.1 – Aristotelian oppositions
29.2 – Modified traditional
29.3 – Modern version
29.4 – Re-modified traditional
29.5 – Modified modern version