excluded middle
Britishnoun
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The law of the excluded middle is related to the law of noncontradiction.
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There are laws of logic—the law of noncontradiction and the law of the excluded middle.
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The law of the excluded middle states that for any statement, either that statement is true, or its negation is true.
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Define the laws of noncontradiction and the excluded middle.
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To mention in the same breath the law of excluded middle, and two contradictions with a mean between them, requires a hardihood unparalleled in the history of philosophy, except by Hegel.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.
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