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Ideas for Anaxarchus, Heraclitus and Bertrand Russell

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle
If everything is and isn't then everything is true, and a midway between true and false makes everything false [Aristotle on Heraclitus]
Excluded middle can be stated psychologically, as denial of p implies assertion of not-p [Russell]
Russell's theories aim to preserve excluded middle (saying all sentences are T or F) [Sawyer on Russell]
Questions wouldn't lead anywhere without the law of excluded middle [Russell]