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In like manner as the Principle of Contradiction (that one of two contradictories must be false) means that an assertion can not be both true and false, so the Principle of Excluded Middle, or that one of two contradictories must be true, means that an assertion must be either true or false: either the affirmative is true, or otherwise the negative is true, which means that the affirmative is false.
Contraries: All A is B No A is B Subtraries: Some A is B Some A is not B Contradictories: All A is B Some A is not B Also contradictories: No A is B Some A is B Respectively subalternate: All A is B and No A is B Some A is B and Some A is not B 50.
In thought contradictories necessarily imply each other, for the knowledge of contradictories is one.
But though these mutually suggest each other, the positive alone is real; the negative is only an abstraction of the other, and in the highest generality, even an abstraction of thought itself." Now the assertion that of such contradictories "the negative is only an abstraction of the other" -- "is nothing else than its negation," -- is not true.
If, in such cases, the negative contradictory were, as alleged, "nothing else" than the negation of the other, and therefore a mere non-entity then it would follow that negative contradictories could be used interchangeably: the Unlimited might be thought of as antithetical to the Divisible; and the Indivisible as antithetical to the Limited.
It is admitted, or rather it is contended, by the writers I have quoted above, that contradictories can be known only in relation to each other -- that equality, for instance, is unthinkable apart from Inequality; and that thus the Relative can itself be conceived only by opposition to the Non-relative.
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