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These laws cannot be proved or disproved. In order to demonstrate them, they must be
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To have an identity means to have a single identity: an object cannot have two identities.
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living room, right now, cannot be made of wood and not made of wood at the same time. For
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Some examples which obviously obey the law of the excluded middle:
0? http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/phenom/old/lawnon.html
0? http://zeidspex.blogspot.com/2008/02/law-of-non-contradiction.html
0? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=law%20of%20noncontradiction
0? http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/articles/lawofcon.htm
0? http://www.experiencefestival.com/law_of_non-contradiction
0? http://www.tompotter.us/exmid.html
0? http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/20è0/03/three-laws-of-thought.html
0? http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Law_of_excluded_middle
0? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle
0? http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExcludedMiddle