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The role of memory in affirming-the-consequent fallacy [PDF]
iScienceSummary: People tend to recognize that a transitive relation remains true even when its order is reversed. This affirming-the-consequent fallacy is thought to be uniquely related to human intelligence.
Yoko Higuchi +4 more
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Denying Antecedents and Affirming Consequents: The State of the Art
Informal Logic, 2015 Recent work on conditional reasoning argues that denying the antecedent [DA] and affirming the consequent [AC] are defeasible but cogent patterns of argument, either because they are effective, rational, albeit heuristic applications of Bayesian ...
David Godden, Frank Zenker
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On the quantum circuit implementation of modus ponens [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe process of inference reflects the structure of propositions with assigned truth values, either true or false. Modus ponens is a fundamental form of inference that involves affirming the antecedent to affirm the consequent.
Songsong Dai
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Cognitive consequences of affirming the self: The relationship between self-affirmation and object construal [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2009 Previous research suggests that affirming one's important values is a powerful way of protecting one's general self integrity, allowing non-defensive processing of self-relevant information. In a series of four studies linking self-affirmation with construal level, we find that in addition to any self buffering effect, thinking about one's values and ...
Cheryl J, Wakslak, Yaacov, Trope
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Denying the Antecedent: The Fallacy That Never Was, or Sometimes Isn’t?
Informal Logic, 2016 : In this paper we examine two challenges to the orthodox understanding of the fallacy of denying the antecedent. One challenge is to say that passages thought to express the fallacy can usually be given an interpretation on which they express valid ...
Luis Duarte d’Almeida, Euan MacDonald
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Concomitance Syllogism in The Holy Quran [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 The syllogism that its major premise is a conjunctive proposition is called concomitance syllogism. This sort of syllogism is valid in two forms of "affirming the antecedent" and "denying the consequent", and is invalid in all others forms.
mohammad javad dakami +1 more
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Racism, ideology, and affirmative action revisited: The antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action. [PDF]
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002 In 2 studies, the antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action (specific, "race-neutral" reasons for opposing the policy) among Whites were examined. In Study 1. data from a probability sample of Los Angeles adults indicated the following: (a) that principled-objection endorsement was driven not merely by race-neutral ...
Christopher M, Federico, Jim, Sidanius
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MODUS PONENS AND MODUS TOLLENS: THEIR VALIDITY/INVALIDITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE ARGUMENTS
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2017 The precedent studies on the validity of Modus ponens and Modus tollens have been carried out with most regard to a major type of conditionals in which the conditional clause is a sufficient condition for the main clause.
Ri Yong-Sok
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Biophilic urban developments following dynamic flows of tree-shaped architectures [PDF]
, 2015 Latest theories and practices in Biophilic designs of the urban space regard the urban fabric as being composed of several interrelated layers of energetic structure influencing each other in a non-linear manner primarily.
Tracada, Eleni
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, 2004 The conception of metaphoric process elaborated by Mary Gerhart and Allan Russell illuminates a key mechanism often involved in the most significant advances in science and religion.
Burrell David +6 more
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