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To: JoeRed
Another would be:
If A, then B
Not B
Therefore, not A

That appears to utilize the same same logic that the CONTAPOSITIVE syllogism does. As in:

If you are in the Obama administration, then you are a liar.
You are not a liar.
Therefore, you are not in the Obama administration.

Is that correct?

22 posted on 07/18/2013 7:31:21 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree; JoeRed

Yes, that is the contrapositive. That’s the term I learned for it.


23 posted on 07/18/2013 7:41:22 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Yep, that’s it. I haven’t heard the term “contrapositive” used before, but a quick search led me to this:

“The inference rule modus tollens, also known as the law of contrapositive, validates the inference from P implies Q and the contradictory of Q, to the contradictory of P.”


24 posted on 07/18/2013 7:57:30 AM PDT by JoeRed
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Studying under Peikoff.

Envious.


52 posted on 07/18/2013 4:07:57 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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