Definition:Alternative (Logic)/Linguistic Note
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Linguistic Note on Alternative
The word alternative, as a synonym for disjunct, is the usual word used in natural language (specifically English) to mean one of two options.
It is technically incorrect to use the word alternative when there are more than two options:
- The way I see it, we have three alternatives ...
To be rigorously correct here, one needs to use the word choices instead of alternatives.