tertium non daturphr.
/ˈtəːʃɪəm nɒn ˈdeɪtə/ No third possibility exists. Also as n. Cf. excluded middle, excluded adj.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choice [phrase] > no third possibility exists
tertium non datur1887
1887 S. H. Hodgson Let. 8 Apr. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 642 You are neither empiricist nor transcendentalist; and tertium non datur.
1932 tr. Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of Masses xiv. 190 The nation is always either in the making, or in the unmaking. Tertium non datur.
1948 H. Reichenbach Elem. Symbolic Logic vi. 227 An example of such a substitution is given by the various forms of the tertium non datur for higher functions.
1977 Language 53 319 After all, a pronoun must be either prefixed or infixed; tertium non datur.
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