Logic
In logic, two mutually exclusive propositions are propositions that logically cannot be true at the same time. Another term for mutually exclusive is "disjoint". To say that more than two propositions are mutually exclusive, depending on context, means that one cannot be true if the other one is true, or at least one of them cannot be true. The term pairwise mutually exclusive always means two of them cannot be true simultaneously.
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