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Models as testable hypotheses lecture #15

Closed coaxlab0 closed 10 months ago

coaxlab0 commented 1 year ago

It says “If P then Q, thus if P is false, then Q is also false.” But I think this is denying the antecedent (i.e., Q could have other causes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent 

I think it should be “If P then Q, not Q, therefore not P”.