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I listed as the first implication of the existence principle that we allow no alternative to existing and not existing. And I have taken the assertion of this dichotomy to mean that we must accept, in one of its forms, the traditional ‘law of excluded middle’. In Chapter 3 I considered a possible rejection of this law which was associated with a belief in a knowledge-dependent existence as a kind of existence which certain things possessed. It is now time to consider its possible rejection in more general terms—terms which need have nothing to do with knowledge-dependence.
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Gibson, Q. (1998). The Law of Excluded Middle. In: The Existence Principle. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5066-8_6
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