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For any proposition, either it or its contradictory obtains; for any proposition P, either P or not-P.

If we're being careful, we'll distinguish this from ThePrincipleOfBivalence.


If we remove the Law of excluded middle from a formal logical system, the result will be a system called 'intuitionistic logic', which is the logic between Mathematical intuitionism.


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Edited July 26, 2001 5:44 pm by Andre Engels (diff)
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