Daily Drills 22 - Section 22 - Question 3

P: A → BP: A → CP: At least one A exists.C: ?

Michael Wyman March 6, 2016

I don't understand this answer

I thought that the contra positive of A->B was not B->not A? The explanation shows the contra positive as B-some-A. Does the third premise of "at least one A exists" cause this change. I'd really like to understand this. Which lecture covers this?

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Mehran March 12, 2016

Yes, the key here is the third premise which tells us that "at least one A exists." Without this premise, you would not be able to make this deduction.

This concept is discussed in our Quantifiers lesson.

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