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Take the contrapositive: If you're successful, then you have a non-mainstream opinion.
by zck 17y ago
Take the contrapositive:
If you're successful, then you have a non-mainstream opinion.
- nostrademons 17y agoThat contrapositive isn't quite accurate, because it indicates a different time-order than the original. "If you don't have a non-mainstream opinion, then you can't be successful" implies that you must have non-mainstream opinion before you become successful. "If you're successful, then you have a non-mainstream opinion" indicates that you have a non-mainstream opinion after you become successful. It's fairly likely that your non-mainstream opinion before becomes the mainstream opinion afterwards. After all, isn't that almost the definition of "successful"?
- roundsquare 17y agoGood point about time. Just for fun... Assume t0 < t1 Original: NOT(NOT(Mainstream(t0))) ==> NOT(Succesful(t1)) Contrapositive: Successful(t1) ==> NOT(Mainstream(t0)) Edit: Small edit for clarity and spelling.