Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Original/inverse
    See Original
    Inverse View

    It is not the case that If the binary presence-or-absence of a dependence relation admits of borderline cases or gradations, as Aristotle's analogical predication and contemporary truthmaker theorists like Lowe argue, the law of excluded middle does not straightforwardly apply to yield exhaustive disjoint categories.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    1 perspective
    Reason for
    ?
    • 1.Borderline cases in dependence may reflect epistemic limitations, not metaphysical indeterminacy—the relation itself remains binary even if unknowable.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Rejecting excluded middle for dependence relations requires justifying why metaphysical relations differ from logical principles governing all propositions.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Truthmaker theory's own framework requires determinate truth-conditions; vagueness in dependence itself undermines rather than supports the theory's coherence.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    1 perspective
    Reason against
    ?
    • 1.Dependence relations in nature exhibit continuous variation (e.g., partial dependence, degrees of existential dependence) rather than sharp binary transitions.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Classical logic's law of excluded middle presupposes precise boundaries that many real dependence phenomena lack, making it descriptively inadequate here.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Aristotle's analogical predication successfully captured graded similarities in being without collapsing distinctions, showing binaries needn't be exhaustive.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.