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Ideas for 'Externalism', 'Letters to Hugo Boxel' and 'Ontological Ground of Alethic Modality'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

6163	If bivalence is rejected, then excluded middle must also be rejected [Rowlands]
	Full Idea: If you reject the principle of bivalence (that a proposition is either determinately true or false), then statements are also not subject to the Law of Excluded Middle (P or not-P).
	From: Mark Rowlands (Externalism [2003], Ch.3)
	A reaction: I think Rowlands is wrong about this. Excluded Middle could be purely syntacti, or its semantics could be 'True or Not-True'. Only bivalent excluded middle introduces 'True or False'. Compare Idea 4752.