The Arbitrary as Neither True nor False

Granted that the arbitrary does not qualify as knowledge, what is the epistemological status of the arbitrary?

In cases like Shirley MacLaine and her past lives or Johnny Cochran in his police conspiracy wiles, what is common is their detachment from evidence. This detachment makes it impossible to refute, prove, reason about, or hypothesize these claims legitimately. Each of these arbitrary claims cannot be cognitively processed—they are neither provable nor disprovable, making them epistemologically useless.

When confronted with arbitrary claims, a rational mind becomes paralyzed. If and when you see that a claim is arbitrary, then you cannot think about its cognitive status, you cannot weigh it, assess it, judge, process, classify, determine its probability, its possibility, its invalidity, its truth, its falsehood, anything. The mind stops, unable to move in any cognitive direction.

The key is integrating two inductions: arbitrary claims are detached from evidence, and therefore, arbitrary claims are detached from thought. Claims detached from evidence are inherently detached from the possibility of thought. This leads to a crucial epistemological conclusion: a claim inherently detached from thought cannot have any relationship to reality. If it cannot be processed cognitively, it cannot be said to be true, false, possible, or impossible.

True and false propositions involve a relationship between a mind and reality. True means correspondence to reality, and false means contradiction. Both concepts require a cognitive relationship with reality. Arbitrary claims, however, lack any relationship to reality, we can't tie it to Fact, any way, for or against.

In sum, arbitrary claims lack cognitive and epistemological status, making them neither true nor false. They should be dismissed without thought to maintain the integrity of rational cognition and objective reality.