Daily Drills 2 - Section 2 - Question 3

Identify what you can properly conclude from the given premises: P: D → not AP: X–some–AC: ?

Alyssa-Berry November 29, 2021

Clarification

Why do the premises go both ways? Why can we assume the reverse? i.e D not A, A not D

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Jay-Etter January 19, 2022

To go from the statement D -> Not A to the statement A -> Not D we are taking the contrapositive. A contrapositive is an alternative (but equivalent) form of any conditional wherein we swap the places of the terms and negate both sides. So flip the positions of D and Not A, and then negate both sides, and we get A -> Not D. If you would like more information on contrapositives feel free to check out the sufficient and necessary lesson in the course!