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Either/or and related terms may refer to: Either/Or (Kierkegaard book), an influential book by philosopher Søren Kierkegaard; Either/Or (Batuman novel), a novel by Elif Batuman; Either/Or, music by Elliott Smith; Either/Or, a comedy game show; either...or and neither...nor, examples of correlative conjunctions in English
Either/Or (Danish: Enten – Eller) is the first published work of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. It appeared in two volumes in 1843 under the pseudonymous editorship of Victor Eremita ( Latin for "victorious hermit").
The sentence "the exact number of marbles in the urn is either 10 or 11" presents two contrary alternatives: the urn could also contain 2 marbles or 17 marbles or... A common form of using contraries in false dilemmas is to force a choice between extremes on the agent: someone is either good or bad, rich or poor, normal or abnormal.
are two different sentences that make the same statement. In either case, a statement is viewed as a truth bearer. Examples of sentences that are (or make) true statements: "Socrates is a man." "A triangle has three sides." "Madrid is the capital of Spain." Examples of sentences that are also statements, even though they aren't true:
In Boolean logic, logical NOR, [1] non-disjunction, or joint denial [1] is a truth-functional operator which produces a result that is the negation of logical or.That is, a sentence of the form (p NOR q) is true precisely when neither p nor q is true—i.e. when both p and q are false.
Either/Or is the second novel from Turkish American writer Elif Batuman. [1] The novel is a bildungsroman, continuing the story of Selin, the narrator of Batuman's first novel The Idiot, in her second year at Harvard University. The title is borrowed from Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard's first published work. [2]
On Dec. 7, 2009, Knight pleaded no contest — neither admitting guilt nor disputing the charge — to trafficking in opioids. His robbery charge went to trial and a jury convicted him on Feb. 16 ...
As Aristotle pointed out, since some sentences are questions, commands, or meaningless, not all can be truth-bearers. If in the proposal "What makes the sentence Snow is white true is the fact that snow is white" it is assumed that sentences like Snow is white are truth-bearers, then it would be more clearly stated as "What makes the meaningful-declarative-sentence Snow is white true is the ...