Sentence examples for mutually exhaustive from inspiring English sources

That is, P and ~P are mutually inconsistent and cannot be both true (LNC), and they are mutually exhaustive (LEM).

Most reports suggest that his focus was on logical arguments rather than on physical theory: he used arguments that depend on positing mutually exhaustive alternatives.

But they are not mutually exhaustive, because they both can be false (and thus, the LEM does not hold in these cases).

In fact, those two things are not even mutually exhaustive, so as long as the latter outweighs the former, you should check your own ego and live and let live.

Contradictory opposites ("She is sitting"/"She is not sitting") are mutually exhaustive as well as mutually inconsistent; one member of the pair must be true and the other false.

Technically speaking, a precise localization is achieved by multiplying |ψ7> by a delta function centered on the position corresponding to either the outcome 'up' or the outcome 'down' (see the entry on collapse theories, section 5 and Albert 1992, chapter 5); where the probability of each of these mutually exhaustive possibilities is ½.

In each week of the 1-yr modeling period, the population was equally divided into 26 ([365.25 d/7 d]/2) mutually-exclusive and mutually-exhaustive subgroups based on age in weeks (n = 81 060).

People are so accustomed to thinking of life and death as mutually exclusive, exhaustive sets that there would be considerable practical advantage in insisting on some sensible line that demarcates death in this way.

Step by step, the CHAID algorithm recursively partitions data into mutually exclusive, exhaustive subsets that are maximally different in the dependent variable (e.g., early death), as assessed with the use of Bonferroni-adjusted χ statistics.

States must be mutually exclusive and exhaustive.

The impairment groups are not mutually exclusive or exhaustive.