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law of attraction: Said to have had its start at Home of Abraham-Hicks Law of Attraction -- It All Started Here! New Age idea that if you have a whim or a wish for something and believe in it enough, you'll get it. If all it took was an attempt equal to the task, it would, instead, be akin to the metaphor of "keeping your nose to the grindstone." That metaphor denies the element of whims and wishes, whereas "attraction" is thought to be a form of psychic energy used by a conscious mind upon the unconscious universe.
law of excluded middle: A proposition is either true or not true. ("True" and "false" apply to the Law of Bivalence, not to the Law of the Excluded Middle.)
While it is true that there is no middle ground between "A is A" and "A is not not-A" (Every proposition is either true or not true), when you put nouns of existents in place of "A" you discover that the truth of a proposition depends on the validity of the proposition. Example, "A dog is a canine" is a true statement when "canine" is the taxonomic "order" scientifically called "canidea". But if you make the statement exhaustive and then get it wrong, such as "Canine = Dog", the Laws cannot hold. The proposition then is neither true nor false because a canine is also defined as a relative of the wolf, fox, and jackal. If the statement is "exhaustive" that means it excludes other possibilities (middles). Where other possibilites exist, excluding the "middle" is a fallacy, and the proposition must be false. Where other possibilities do not exist, the proposition becomes "either/or" and the Law of the excluded middle applies. lie: the willful misplacing of ontological predicates; that is, saying "is" when meaning "is not," or "is not" when meaning "is."
libertarian: political: specifically, action and thought recognizing the unalienable rights of birth with which Man is endowed by the nature of his metaphysical existence. That existence is defined as "the rational animal." Libertarian action translates into the value of being both free of coercion from others, and of being non-coercion of others, for the purpose of furthering the pursuit of human life as well as one's own, through the virtue of Reason.
life: Life is the natural outcome of natural forces of natural laws that govern matter and energy. Life is an entity of existence. Just as nothing in existence was created, neither was life. Existence must exist; it has no choice and it cannot be destroyed. Life is a part of nature with no purpose other than what we give to it.
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