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Single Idea 2947

[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle ]

Full Idea

Without the law of excluded middle, we could not ask the questions that give rise to discoveries.

Gist of Idea

Questions wouldn't lead anywhere without the law of excluded middle

Source

Bertrand Russell (An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth [1940], c.p.88)

Book Ref

'Readings on Logic', ed/tr. Copi,I. /Gould,J. [Macmillan 1964], p.185