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The Law of Excluded Middle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Eric Toms
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Extract

It is my purpose to examine this law in those cases in which it is generally held to be untrue. I inquire what can be meant, in each case of a statement p considered, by denying the law, that is, by saying ‘Neither p nor —p‘. After separating the possible meanings of this declared indeterminacy, I go on to inquire, taking each possibility in turn, whether the law does in fact fail.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1941 , pp. 33 - 38
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1941

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∗ The admission of such a transformation, and not the application of the law, is the cause of the fallacies of which Dewey speaks.