denying the antecedent
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September 4, 2008
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Denying the antecedent The fallacy of deducing that because the antecedent of a conditional proposition is false its consequence must also false. For example, determining from “If she's late, I'll be cross” that “She's not late, so I'm not cross”.
(see also: Affirming the consequent, Fallacy)
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