Finding Truth in the Land of the Excluded Middle
If you've ever taken a Logic class or perhaps you've taken the initiative to take up and read a book on Logic yourself, you've been introduced to the Laws of Logic. There are three Laws of Logic: 1) the Law of Identity which asserts that if a statement is true then it must be true, and 2) the Law of Non-Contradiction which asserts the impossibility of a statement being both true and false concurrently, and 3) the Law of the Excluded Middle which states that a statement is either true or false there is no middle ground. These laws form the foundation of logical argumentation and govern our ability to reason and hence, discern truth from falsity. Our postmodernist culture is not a fan of the Laws of Logic. Postmodernism says there are no trustworthy and enduring laws and logic is simply utilitarian i.e. whatever works for you. This is tragically on...
