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From what I understand, Kant considers binary logic to be an inevitable error of human reasoning:
In this case, the error consists of assuming that imperfect human understanding implies the existence of a perfect understanding, which is opposite to human, i.e. divine.
“They are sophisms, not of men, but of pure reason herself, from which the wisest cannot free himself. After long labour he may be able to guard against the error, but he can never be thoroughly rid of the illusion which continually mocks and misleads him.”
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“The second class of sophistical arguments is occupied with the transcendental conception of the absolute totality of the series of conditions for a given phenomenon, and I conclude, from the fact that I have always a self-contradictory conception of the unconditioned synthetical unity of the series upon one side, the truth of the opposite unity, of which I have nevertheless no conception. The condition of reason in these dialectical arguments, I shall term the antinomy of pure reason.”
--- The Critique of Pure Reason.
In this case, the error consists of assuming that imperfect human understanding implies the existence of a perfect understanding, which is opposite to human, i.e. divine.