Affirming the consequent
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title:
Affirming the consequent
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In propositional logic, affirming the consequent, sometimes called converse error, fallacy of the converse, or confusion of necessity and sufficiency, is a formal fallacy of taking a true conditional statement under certain assumptions, and invalidly inferring its converse, even though that statement may not be true under the same assumptions. This arises when the consequent has other possible antecedents. Converse errors are common in everyday thinking and communication and can result from, amo
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Type of fallacious argument (logical fallacy)
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2024-04-02T09:00:17Z
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