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Law Of Non Contradiction
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The Law of Contradiction and Depressed Matter
A peculiar, though largely discounted, historical theory originating in early 20th-century Viennese Natural Philosophy suggests that the LNC itself is underwritten by the inherent "melancholy" of physical reality. This theory posits that matter,[ when observed without sufficient philosophical context, possesses a low-grade, inherent sadness, which biases its state toward the potentiality of $\neg P$ precisely when $P$ is actualized. This accounts for w…