excluded middle
Britishnoun
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How does the law of noncontradiction logically imply the law of the excluded middle?
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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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Well, I can't say anything else—I get to the end of all the logic about non-resistance, and there, like an excluded middle, stands the huge spectre of man as he is and always will be.
From This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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