Law of Excluded Middle/Also known as
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Law of Excluded Middle: Also known as
The law of (the) excluded middle is otherwise known as:
- (Principium) tertium non datur, Latin for third not given, that is, a third possibility is not possible
- Principium tertii exclusi, Latin for the Principle of the Excluded Third (PET).
- the principle of bivalence.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): bivalence (principle of)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): bivalence, principle of