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A Note on Statistical Hypothesis Testing: Probabilifying Modus Tollens Invalidates Its Force? Not True! [PDF]
Educ Psychol Meas, 2023 The import or force of the result of a statistical test has long been portrayed as consistent with deductive reasoning. The simplest form of deductive argument has a first premise with conditional form, such as p→q, which means that “if p is true, then q
Widaman KF.
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Negation of Conditionals in Natural Language and Thought
Logical Investigations, 2021 External negation of conditionals occurs in sentences beginning with ‘It is not true that if’ or similar phrases, and it is not rare in natural language. A conditional may also be denied by another with the same antecedent and opposite consequent.
Gilberto Gomes
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, 2018 A counteridentical is a counterfactual with an identity statement in the antecedent. While counteridenticals generally seem non-trivial, most semantic theories for counterfactuals, when combined with the necessity of identity and distinctness, attribute ...
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, 2017 Wagenmakers et al. addressed the illogic use of p-values in 'Psychological Science under Scrutiny'. While historical criticisms mostly deal with the illogical nature of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), Wagenmakers et al.
Perezgonzalez, JD
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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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Experimental philosophy and moral responsibility [PDF]
, 2022 Can experimental philosophy help us answer central questions about the nature of moral responsibility, such as the question of whether moral responsibility is compatible with determinism?
Björnsson, Gunnar
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Psychological Research and the Epistemological Approach to Argumentation
Informal Logic, 2008 Much psychological research on argumentation focuses on persuasion and pragmatics. However, one strand investigates how average people understand the nature of knowledge and knowing, and how these epistemological orientations underlie skilled ...
Michael P. Weinstock
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The explanationist argument for moral realism [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper I argue that the explanationist argument in favour of moral realism fails. According to this argument, the ability of putative moral properties to feature in good explanations provides strong evidence for, or entails, the metaphysical ...
Neil Sinclair, Nottingham Ng Rd
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The Zen of Argument Analysis: Reflections on Informal Logic's Argument Evaluation Contest
Informal Logic, 1994 An argumentative passage that might appear to be an instance of denying the antecedent will generally admit of an alternative interpretation, one on which the conditional contained by the passage is a preface to the argument rather than a premise of it ...
Don S. Levi
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Many studies and initiatives are animated by the potential for science education to intervene in the climate crisis and crises of environmental degradation and disinformation. For science teachers to learn to address these issues in their classes, their teaching must expand beyond scientific facts and face controversial social aspects. Dealing
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