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Affirming the consequent
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A logical fallacy that argues from the premise a → b and the premise b that therefore, a is true. the name comes from the fact that the argument affirms (i.e., asserts as true) the consequent (b) in the conditional.
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Consequent, английский
- In a conditional p → q, the consequent is q.
- N второй член услов- ного предложения, следствие
- Следствие;консеквент
Conditional, английский
- Условный
- A условный | n 1 усло- вие2; 2 грм. а) условное наклонение (син. ~ mood), б) условная связь (син. ~ conjunction); 3 лог. условное высказывание mood, sentence
- In probabilistic expert systems, a collection of conditional distributions for the same group of variables (referred to as the head) over all of the states of a conditioning set of variables (referred to as the tail). the conditional distribution of height and weight for various mutually exclusive groupings of age and sex would be a conditional, with height and weight as the head variables and age and sex the tail variables. see also: slice.
- A control structure such as an if-statement or case-statement that conditionally executes a block of code
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Appeal to ignorance, английский
A logical fallacy: taking the absence of evidence to be evidence of absence. if something is not known to be false, assume that it is true; or if something is not known to be true, assume that it is false. for example, if i have no reason to think that anyone in tajikistan wish me well, that is not evidence that nobody in tajikistan wishes me well.
Denying the antecedent, английский
A logical fallacy that argues from the premise a → b and the premise !a that therefore, !b. the name comes from the fact that the operation denies (i.e., asserts the negation of) the antecedent (a) in the conditional.
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