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...That is literally what he just said.
by jacoblambda 10y ago
...That is literally what he just said.
- SiVal 10y agoAnd this error is ironically an illustration of the exact problem he was commenting on: our brains tend to work by association, and implication (A implies B) tends to be interpreted as association (A implies B means A and B are associated, which means they go together, so A implies B is a way to say B implies A).
- groovy2shoes 10y agoAh, good ol' modus moron, as Angelo Margaris's "First Order Mathematical Logic" calls affirming the consequent.