STUDY GUIDE FOR NASH CHAPTER 8: THE LAW OF …



THE LAW OF NONCONTRADICTION

20 points

▪ In your own words, provide definitions for each item in Section A (one point each)

▪ Answer in at least 100 words one question from each of the three sections, Sections B, C & D (4 points for each answer)

Section A

1. Law of Noncontradiction

2. Skepticism

3. Irrationalism

4. Self-Referential Absurdity

5. Verification Principle

6. Scientific Positivism

7. Deconstructionism

8. Impossibility of Proving the Law of Noncontradiction

Section A

9. What does it mean to say that the Law of Noncontradiction is a necessary condition of logic?

10. What does it mean to say that the Law of Noncontradiction is a necessary condition of being?

11. Why is significant human communication impossible without the Law of Noncontradiction?

12. Why is significant human action impossible without the Law of Noncontradiction?

13. Why is significant human thought impossible without the Law of Noncontradiction?

Section B

14. Why have some considered God to be above and beyond the laws of logic?

15. Why have some taught that the statement “God exists” is meaningless?

16. Why are both kinds of positivism (logical and scientific) logically self-defeating?

17. Why is evidentialism self-defeating?

Section C

18. Does Nash do justice to the touchstone proposition of deconstructionism? (Support your answer.) Consider why deconstructionism first came about as a way of thinking.

19. Give an example of the Law of Noncontradiction in operation in the mind of God.

20. Why is the Law of Noncontradiction only a necessary condition, and not also a sufficient condition, of logic?

21. Did you find Nash to be an impartial critique of irrationalism? Why or why not?

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