Article Overview and Summary Laws are supposed to predict and explain. Predict means to describe the future relative to the present. Explain means to justify that prediction based upon ideas about reality. The Law of Diminishing Returns is a law that predicts that returns on investment must diminish over time […]
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The Personification of Knowledge
Dualistic vs. Non-Dualistic Logic Modern logic is defined by three principles—identity (A is A), non-contradiction (it cannot be both and A and not-A), and mutual exclusion (it cannot be neither A and not-A). In Vedic philosophy, we will call this a dualistic logic in the sense that the categories neither […]
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Three Opposites Instead of Two
Qualities and Non-Binary Logic Quality thinking breaks ordinary logic whereas quantity thinking does not. In ordinary logic, there are always two opposites. Only one of these could be true, and one of them must be true. The former condition forbids both opposites from being true, and the latter condition forbids […]
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The Laws of Nature in Vedic Philosophy
Laws in Western and Vedic Thinking Modern science uses two kinds of laws—these are called “conservation laws” and “predictive laws”. A conservation law states what cannot happen, and a predictive law states what must happen. For example, the law of conservation of energy says that if two particles collide then […]