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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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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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 Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
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