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Full Idea
There are falsehoods which are contrary to one another and cannot be the case together e.g. that a man is a horse or a cow.
Gist of Idea
Two falsehoods can be contrary to one another
Source
Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 88a29)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Barnes,Jonathan [OUP 1993], p.44
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| 1697 | The contrary of good is bad, but the contrary of bad is either good or another evil [Aristotle] |
| 1698 | Both sides of contraries need not exist (as health without sickness, white without black) [Aristotle] |
| 24052 | From one thing alone we can infer its contrary [Aristotle] |
| 4333 | Contraries are by definition as far distant as possible from one another [Aristotle] |
| 1708 | In "Callias is just/not just/unjust", which of these are contraries? [Aristotle] |
| 608 | There is no middle ground in contradiction, but there is in contrariety [Aristotle] |
| 1684 | Two falsehoods can be contrary to one another [Aristotle] |
| 16854 | Contrary pairs entail contradictions; one member entails negation of the other [Lipton] |