excluded middle
Britishnoun
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If you accept that all statements must be either true or false and you also accept the law of noncontradiction, then you must accept the law of the excluded middle.
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Law of the excluded middle a logical law that states that for any statement, either that statement or its negation is true.
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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 is related to the law of noncontradiction.
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With these three intellectual laws of identity, of contradiction, and of the excluded middle, formal logic begins.
From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Beer, M.
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