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False (logic)

False (logic)
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  1. 1. Truth and Falsehood properly belong to Propositions, not to Ideas. Though truth and falsehood belong, in propriety of speech, only to PROPOSITIONS: yet IDEAS are oftentimes termed true or false (as what words are there that are not used with great latitude, and with some deviation from their strict and proper significations?) Though I think that when ideas themselves are termed true or false, there is still some…

    John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1

    The chapter “CHAPTER XXXII. OF TRUE AND FALSE IDEAS.” is titled for False; names False several times.

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  2. Hence it is clear that true and false are contraries. Reply Obj. 1: What is in things is the truth of the thing; but what is apprehended, is the truth of the intellect, wherein truth primarily resides. Hence the false is that which is not as apprehended. To apprehend being, and not-being, implies contrariety; for, as the Philosopher proves (Peri Herm. ii), the contrary of this statement "God is good," is, "God is…

    Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I

    Names False several times; states what False is.

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  3. And I subjoin: "hold false and vile The judgment;" where again it is promised to confute the judgment of the people full of error: false, that is, removed from the Truth; and vile, that is to say, affirmed and fortified by vileness of mind. And it is to be observed that in this Proem I promise, firstly, to treat of the Truth, and then to confute the False; and in the treatise the opposite is done, for, in the first…

    Dante Alighieri, The Banquet

    Names False several times; opens on False.

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Place in the tradition

Part of Propositional logic.

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