Chapter 55 [Case Analysis] <Su Moleng's Way to Be an Official>

When Wu Zetian was emperor in the Tang Dynasty, there was a prime minister named Su Weiwei. Although he was quite talented in literature, he was not good at being an official.He has been a prime minister for several years. In order to protect his personal status and safety, he always handles everything vaguely. He can do this or that, and never expresses a clear attitude or opinion.He has his own way of being an official. He said: We cannot make clear decisions when dealing with matters, otherwise, if mistakes occur, we will be responsible for dereliction of duty.Just be ambiguous to hold both ends.

According to this characteristic of Su Weiwei, someone nicknamed him Su Moleng at that time. The law of the excluded middle requires clarity in our thoughts and speech.The fundamental feature of the law of excluded middle is that it stipulates that two contradictory judgments cannot be false at the same time. Therefore, if the judgments of two contradictions are negated at the same time, it violates the law of excluded middle, and the thinking must lose its clarity. The prime minister of the Tang Dynasty mentioned above, when he dealt with the problem, he thought that it was okay to do this way or that way when dealing with the two contradictory methods. This violated both the law of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle Both contradictory judgments are true, which implies asserting that both contradictory judgments are false).Its purpose is to shirk responsibility and keep his black hat.

In our real life, there is no shortage of Suwei type people.This kind of person is tricky and smooth in dealing with others, slick in all aspects, drifting with the tide, and has no principles.Especially in the face of big right and wrong, they never express their views clearly, but are ambiguous, ambiguous, and unpredictable. As Lenin said, they circled like snakes between two mutually exclusive viewpoints, trying to agree with one viewpoint and the other viewpoint (Selected Works of Lenin, Vol. 1, 1972 edition, 4th ninety-nine pages).This is a sophistry that deliberately violates the law of excluded middle.