excluded middle

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noun

logic the principle that every proposition is either true or false, so that there is no third truth-value and no statements lack truth-value

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Words nearby excluded middle

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How to use excluded middle in a sentence

The absolute fact comes under the Law of Excluded Middle, but a personal opinion is not an absolute fact.
Your Mind and How to Use It|William Walker Atkinson
From this law of thought follows directly the third, viz., the Principle of the Excluded Middle.
The life and teaching of Karl Marx|M. Beer
With these three intellectual laws of identity, of contradiction, and of the excluded middle, formal logic begins.
The life and teaching of Karl Marx|M. Beer
These rules are very far from being self-evident, any more than the maxims of Contradiction and of the Excluded Middle.
Aristotle|George Grote

If there is a mean, the conditioned, and the two extremes, then "excluded middle" has nothing to do with the matter at all.
Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation|Jesse H. Jones