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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Ethical Criticism and the Vice of Moderation' and 'On Fate ('De fato')'

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

21677	How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero]
	Full Idea: How can something that is not true not be false, or how can something that is not false not be true?
	From: M. Tullius Cicero (On Fate ('De fato') [c.44 BCE], 16.38)
	A reaction: We must at least distinguish between whether the contrary thing is not actually true, or whether we are prepared to assert that it is not true. The disjunction may seem to be a false dichotomy. 'He isn't good' may not entail 'he is evil'.