263 - Bernardo Kastrup - The Fall Into Meta-Consciousness
The Symbolic World
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The Law of Excluded Middle
Law of excluded middle is the notion that something is either true or false, or never both and never neither. We adopt these axioms because they seem to us to be self evidently true but you cannot logically argue for the validity of logic without incurring circular or begging the question. I think it's fallacious to say that quantum mechanics proves that the world is illogical. That's based on very superficial misunderstanding of the science involved. It doesn't work to prove that something exists at the very minimum, you have to describe precisely what it is that you're saying that exists. But the law of excluded middle allows for something that I don't even describe to be proven to exist, which
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