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Sure, but does any of this establish that "most philosophies" don't observe the law of the excluded middle? > you could argue that a majority of non religious
by pdabbadabba 10y ago
Sure, but does any of this establish that "most philosophies" don't observe the law of the excluded middle?
> you could argue that a majority of non religious western philosophers agree with the excluded middle, but that's a fairly weak argument.
But perhaps pretty strong when my claim was only that it is "widely accepted." :) At any rate, no need to argue further about what "most" people believe. I just wanted to make it clear that, at least in the philosophical circles I'm familiar with, the law of the excluded middle is almost universally accepted.
- Retric 10y agoOk, 'Most philosophies' might be overkill, but it's well past a simple majority. That said, it can feel like non religious western philosophy makes up the majority of thought systems, but it's actually a surprisingly 'small minority'. :-)
- pdabbadabba 10y ago> it can feel like non religious western philosophy makes up the majority of thought systems Definitely. And alarmingly so. The unsettling fact is that I don't feel like I have any idea at all whether most people believe in things like the law of the excluded middle--despite the fact that I'd be hard pressed to come up with a proposition that is more basic to my own view of the universe, or that of virtually everyone I know (including both people I know personally, and people whose work I've read). The world is really big.