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Meaning of "excluded middle" in the English dictionary

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXCLUDED MIDDLE

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Excluded middle is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXCLUDED MIDDLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Law of excluded middle

In logic, the law of excluded middle is the third of the three classic laws of thought. It states that for any proposition, either that proposition is true, or its negation is true. The law is also known as the law of the excluded third, in Latin principium tertii exclusi. Yet another Latin designation for this law is tertium non datur: "no third is given". The earliest known formulation is Aristotle's principle of non-contradiction, first proposed in On Interpretation, where he says that of two contradictory propositions one must be true, and the other false. He also states it as a principle in the Metaphysics book 3, saying that it is necessary in every case to affirm or deny, and that it is impossible that there should be anything between the two parts of a contradiction. The principle was stated as a theorem of propositional logic by Russell and Whitehead in Principia Mathematica as:. The principle should not be confused with the principle of bivalence, which states that every proposition is either true or false, and has only a semantical formulation.

Definition of excluded middle in the English dictionary

The definition of excluded middle in the dictionary is the principle that every proposition is either true or false, so that there is no third truth-value and no statements lack truth-value.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXCLUDED MIDDLE

excludability
excludable
exclude
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excluder
excludible
excluding
exclusion
exclusion clause
exclusion order
exclusion principle
exclusion zone
exclusionary
exclusionism
exclusionist
exclusive
Exclusive Brethren
exclusive disjunction
exclusive economic zone
exclusive or

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXCLUDED MIDDLE

at the fiddle
bass fiddle
Biddle
diddle
fiddle
fit as a fiddle
griddle
kiddle
middle
paradiddle
piddle
pig in the middle
piggy in the middle
play second fiddle
riddle
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unriddle
widdle

Synonyms and antonyms of excluded middle in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «excluded middle» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXCLUDED MIDDLE

Find out the translation of excluded middle to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of excluded middle from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «excluded middle» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

排中
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tercero excluido
570 millions of speakers

English

excluded middle
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपवर्जित बीच
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المرفوع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

исключенного третьего
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

terceiro excluído
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tiers exclu
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dikecualikan tengah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ausgeschlossenen Dritten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

排中律
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

제외 된 중간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tilar tengah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giữa loại trừ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விலக்கப்பட்ட நடுத்தர
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वगळलेले मध्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hariç tutulan orta
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

terzo escluso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyłączone w średnim
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

виключеного третього
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de mijloc exclus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποκλεισμένης μέσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitgesluit middel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uteslutna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ekskludert midten
5 millions of speakers

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The term «excluded middle» is normally little used and occupies the 125.694 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXCLUDED MIDDLE»

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Wake Up Down There!: The Excluded Middle Anthology
The great American tradition of drop out culture makes it over the millennium mark with a collection of the best from The Excluded Middle, the critically acclaimed underground magazine of UFOs, the paranormal, conspiracies, psychedelia, and ...
Greg Bishop, 2000
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Muslims, Magic and the Kingdom of God: Church Planting Among ...
This "excluded middle zone" refers to the area where the spirit realm impinges upon this world. This middle zone encompasses the areas of ancestors, demons, witchcraft, sorcery and the like, and had not been adequately addressed by ...
Rick Love, 2000
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Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications
The excluded middle axiom (and its dual, the axiom of contradiction) are not laws ; Newton produced laws, Kepler produced laws, Darcy, Boyle, Ohm, Kirchhoff, Bernoulli, and many others too numerous to list here all developed laws. Laws are ...
Timothy J. Ross, 2009
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Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered
With the formulation "either/or" in the title, Kierkegaard invokes the Danish discussion about the law of excluded middle. There is thus nothing new or original in Kierkegaard's title, rather it can be seen as an example of his appropriation of ...
Jon Stewart, 2007
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The Tragic Middle: Racine, Aristotle, Euripides
law of excluded middle dismiss the meaningless as a category unworthy of consideration is in itself meaningful: it may be true that "the meaningless has no right to recognition as judgment,"22 but that does not necessarily mean it has no right ...
Richard E. Goodkin, 1991
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Logic Made Easy: How to Know when Language Deceives You
1 To that end, let's consider both the law of the excluded middle and the law of noncontradiction — logical truisms and the most fundamental of axioms. Aristotle seems to accept them as general principles. The law of the excluded middle ...
Deborah J. Bennett, 2004
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Christ-Centered Therapy
Each of these therapists would intertwine spiritual beliefs and psychotherapy in the treatment, but only the Christian psychologist could offer guidance based on the truth God reveals in his Word. THE EXCLUDED MIDDLE In order to formulate  ...
Neil T. Anderson, Terry E. Zuehlke, Julie Zuehlke, 2009
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From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, ...
The rejection of the thoughtless use of the logical principle of excluded middle, as well as the recognition, first, of the fact that the investigation of the question why the principle mentioned is justified and to what extent it is valid constitutes an ...
Jean Van Heijenoort, 1977
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Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
As a specific example of a logical principle that is applied too freely Brouwer cited the law of excluded middle. This principle, which asserts that every meaningful statement is true or false arose historically in the application of reasoning to finite  ...
Morris Kline, 1982
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Essays on Frege's Conception of Truth
Hence, any justification of the laws of logic must, from the point of view of a logical skeptical, be circular. Moreover, even if one were only attempting to justify, say, the law of excluded middle, no argument that appealed to that very law could  ...
Dirk Greimann, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXCLUDED MIDDLE»

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Jiggery-pokery
It is a text-book example of the fallacy of the excluded middle. Scalia, Will, and Levin all suggest that either the Supreme Court Justices can pay ... «Commonweal, Jun 15»
2
The fascinating cultural reason why Westerners and East Asians …
The Greeks followed the "law of the excluded middle," which states that if two people are debating, then one of them must be exclusively right ... «Businessinsider India, May 15»
3
Fictional Valley, a Riff on HBO's Silicon Valley
... of principle of the excluded middle. In San Francisco you can be rich, or you can be a long-haired pot-smoking, ferret-breeder, tree-hugger. «Mission Local, May 15»
4
Robert Larson will present program on Southern California's past for …
... work has been published in the Temecula Valley Museum's The High Country, Fate magazine, Art Bell's After Dark and The Excluded Middle. «Redlands Daily Facts, Apr 15»
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Engineer, 64, Sues Google for Age Discrimination
Plaintiffs lawyers with Kotchen & Low in Washington, D.C., claim Google systematically excluded middle-aged and older workers from jobs for ... «The Recorder, Apr 15»
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California's broken dreams
... Fate magazine, Art Bell's After Dark, and The Excluded Middle. He also contributed an entry to the book Weird California: Your Travel Guide ... «Highland Community News, Apr 15»
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The secrets to Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein's greatness
But he also, at least implicitly, uncovered the “excluded middle”: a third way, even if, ostensibly, Aristotle's principle of non-contradiction means ... «Haaretz, Apr 15»
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What Could Be More Appropriate on Easter? Jerry Coyne …
Atheists like Coyne, of course, take recourse in the excluded middle. The most common gambit to get around this problem -- Jerry Coyne's ... «Discovery Institute, Apr 15»
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Pharma accused of restricting access to hep C drug in poor countries
There are 49 million people living with hep C in those excluded middle-income countries, of which 30 million are in China. Yet even the ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
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A 'middle course' between BBL and war
The people who clamor for the approval of the BBL in the name of peace commit the fallacy of the excluded middle. They think of the BBL as the ... «Inquirer.net, Mar 15»

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