Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
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Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
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Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise is a formal fallacy that is committed when a categorical syllogism has a positive conclusion and one or two negative premises. For example: The only thing that can be properly inferred from these premises is that some things that are not fish cannot fly, provided that dogs exist. Or: This could be illustrated mathematically as It is a fallacy because any valid forms of categorical syllogism that assert a negative premise must have a negative conclus
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Logical fallacy
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2024-01-23T13:54:08Z
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