Take the following as truth: This small, barren island in the northern Dodecanese may have remained the deserted outpost it once was, had it not been for a decision in the first century a.d. to use it as a penal colony for political and religious dissidents.
Then the following statement: "An island has been used both as an outpost and as a penal colony." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: True