Mutually exclusive.
The two events can also be exhaustive if there is no other possibility. For example, if you believe in a state of spiritual limbo, then there is a third possible outcome. In that case death and life are no longer exhaustive.
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The term mutually exclusive refers to 2 or more events of incidents, in which the happening of one event precludes the happening of the other. Mutually exclusive can be applied less formally to the dating world, in which a couple who has been dating become more serious, and therefore mutually exclusive with one another.
No because the term mutually exclusive implies the the trials that could result in these events are sequenced in time.
It's more of a philosophical term in general. It refers to two or more conditions which can't be true at the same time. For instance, the statements "There is a god." and "There is no god." are mutually exclusive.
A term used in Data Management courses to be mutually exclusive means when two things have nothing in common. In a Venn Diagram this looks like two circles side by side instead of the regular two over lapping circles.
Some triangles can be classified by only term, and some triangles fall into two overlapping, non-mutually-exclusive categories.