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   Message 54,026 of 54,659   
   Tim Little to Joe Snodgrass   
   Re: Logic and behavior   
   14 Nov 10 02:25:26   
   
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   XPost: sci.math   
   From: tim@little-possums.net   
      
   On 2010-11-12, Joe Snodgrass  wrote:   
   > Just now, reading Wikipedia, I came across The Law of the Excluded   
   > Middle, which is new to me.  It states that any logical assertion must   
   > be either true or false, with no third possibility allowed.   
   >   
   > If that were true of human behavior, there would only be two kinds of   
   > students, the ones who had to be there and the ones who want to be   
   > there.   
      
   If you read more on logic on Wikipedia, you will come across the   
   logical fallacy of "false dichotomy".  There is no logical law that   
   states for two propositions P and Q exactly one must be true, but that   
   is what your argument amounts to.   
      
      
   - Tim   
      
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