Modus Tollendo Ponens/Examples/Third World War

Examples of Use of Modus Tollendo Ponens

The following is an example of the use of a Modus Tollendo Ponens:

The United Nations will be strengthened or there will be a third world war.
The United Nations will not be strengthened.
Therefore there will be a third world war.


Sources

  • 1973: Irving M. Copi: Symbolic Logic (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $2$ Arguments Containing Compound Statements: $2.1$: Simple and Compound Statements
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