Definition:Exclusive Or/Semantics of Exclusive Or

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Semantics of Exclusive Or

The exclusive disjunction is used to represent any statement in natural language such that exactly one of two substatements are held to be true.

Thus $p \oplus q$ can be interpreted as:

  • $p$ or $q$, but not both
  • Either $p$ or $q$.