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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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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How does the law of noncontradiction logically imply the law of the excluded middle?
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Define the laws of noncontradiction and the excluded middle.
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For, on the supposition, a thing would be something else, whereas all that the law of excluded middle demands is that it should either be itself or not.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
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