Definitions
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- noun In chem., a valence or saturating power which is double that of the hydrogen atom.
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- noun The state or quality of being
bivalent
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Examples
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Protothetic is an absolute propositional calculus in the sense that the principle of bivalence is its theorem.
Lvov-Warsaw School Wole&324;ski, Jan 2009
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What has been called the ˜standard interpretation™ holds that Aristotle thought that, unlike such sentences about the past or present, sentences asserting future singular contingent facts are neither true nor false, exempting them from the principle of bivalence and avoiding the alleged deterministic consequence that contingency and chance are destroyed.
The Garbage House 2009
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Thus, the Stoics accepted the principle of bivalence in its unrestricted form.
Lvov-Warsaw School Wole&324;ski, Jan 2009
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Ammonius interprets “it is not the same” as indicating a doctrine that sentences about future singular contingent events ˜divide the true and false™ (i.e., obey the principle of bivalence) but do so in an indefinite, ˜not in a definite manner™
The Garbage House 2009
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On one reading, Aristotle's response to this is to deny the principle of bivalence for future contingent statements: it is now neither true nor false that there will be a sea battle tomorrow.
Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
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Chrysippus in particular was convinced that bivalence and the law of excluded middle apply even to contingent statements about particular future events or states of affairs.
Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
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(The law of excluded middle says that for a proposition, p, and its contradictory, not-p, ˜(p or not-p)™ is necessarily true, while bivalence insists that the truth table that defines a connective like ˜or™ contains only two values, true and false.)
Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
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Realism about truth involves acceptance of the principle of bivalence
The Coherence Theory of Truth Young, James O. 2008
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Though these and other developments in logic are interesting in their own right, the Stoic treatment of certain problems about modality and bivalence are more significant for the shape of Stoicism as a whole.
Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
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The matter is doubly confused, because the modern arguments for fatalism often emerge from the very considerations about bivalence that Aristotle discusses in
Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
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