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Ideas for 'The Strangest Man', 'Regressive Method for Premises in Mathematics' and 'The Rejection of Consequentialism'

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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
Non-contradiction was learned from instances, and then found to be indubitable [Russell]
     Full Idea: The law of contradiction must have been originally discovered by generalising from instances, though, once discovered, it was found to be quite as indubitable as the instances.
     From: Bertrand Russell (Regressive Method for Premises in Mathematics [1907], p.274)