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In other words, the Law of Non-Contradiction is a truth about propositions: those primary bearers of truth-value. It is a truth about which truth-values a proposition can and cannot bear: if a proposition bears the value true, it cannot also bear the value false, and vice versa.
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A Defense of a Theistic Argument from the Law of Non-Contradiction. My thesis is that there is a defensible argument for the existence of God from the necessary existence of the Law of Non-Contradiction (LNC). James N. Anderson and Greg A. Welty (A&W) offer such an….
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Dr. Anderson defines “paradox” as “a set of claims which taken in conjunction appear to be logically inconsistent.”. For the author “paradox” is “synonymous with apparent contradiction” (5-6). A paradox, then, is only apparently a contradiction.
He argues that we should take apparently contradictions in orthodox Christian theology to be MACRUEs (Merely Apparent Contradictions Resulting from Unarticulated Equivocation).
In the introduction to their paper, Anderson and Welty attempt to pre-empt a response about alternative laws of logic by saying that their argument is not dependent in any way on the choice of the three classical laws (identity, excluded middle and non-contradiction).
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