Logic for beginners...

The whole Laws of Thought approach is kind of a pet peeve of mine. There is nothing wrong with it per se, but it makes it look like there are some authoritative laws that need to be followed for some philosophical reason, when really all they are are ways to prohibit (via a sort of philosophical intimidation) certain common verbal misunderstandings of people’s utterances. I propose actually looking at the source of the problem: how and why words can be so confusing.