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- noun logic An arbitrary
contradiction , denoted⊥ .
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Examples
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Falsum in uno, falsum in toto, as right wingers like to say.
Andrew Reinbach: Giving Ron Paul the Media Attention He Deserves Andrew Reinbach 2011
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Falsum in uno, falsum in toto, as right wingers like to say.
Andrew Reinbach: Giving Ron Paul the Media Attention He Deserves Andrew Reinbach 2011
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Falsum in uno, falsum in toto, as right wingers like to say.
Andrew Reinbach: Giving Ron Paul the Media Attention He Deserves Andrew Reinbach 2011
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Aristotle, Vulgus dividi in oppositum contra sapientes, quod vulgo videtur verum, falsum est; that which the commonalty accounts true, is most part false, they are still opposite to wise men, but all the world is of this humour
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Credat qui vult gemmas mirabilia efficere; mihi qui et ratione et experientia didici aliter rem habere, nullus facile persuadebit falsum esse verum.
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Hic arcentur haerediatatibus liberi, hic donatur bonis alienis, falsum consulit, alter testamentum corrumpit, &c.
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It is general usage, however, to assume that there are two particular truth degrees, usually denoted by "0" and "1", respectively, which act like the traditional truth values "falsum" and "verum".
Many-Valued Logic Gottwald, Siegfried 2004
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Ad confirmandum superius mendacium de Inferno terrestri ac visibili, commentum hoc, non minus calumniosum (etsi facilè largiar, Frisium non tam calumniandi, quàm noua & inaudita prædicandi animo ista scripsisse) quàm falsum ac gerris Siculis longè vanius ac detestabilius, excogitarunt homines ignaui, nec coelum ec infernum scientes.
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Quòd autem quidam in mappa Islandiæ de prouinca Skagefiord annotauit, sub eodem tecto homines, canes, sues et oues, viuere, partim falsum, partim minimè mirandum est.
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De ouibus quidem, vt iam dictum est, et præcipuè suibus (cum illa prouincia sues non habeat) falsum: De canibus haud mirum, cum illis nec regum aulæ caruerint nec hodiè careant, vt nimis omnibus est notum.
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