SPA 3800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mechanical Engineering, Middle Ear, Deductive Reasoning
26 Jan 2019
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It"s to help the other people, not just your kid. Is there a vaccine cancer connection: she is claiming things that have no data behind, mercury is in vaccines too, thimerosal. If the hypothesis is true, then the prediction will be observed: predictions are derived from hypothesis, a little logic, here is a common error in logic: If (a is true) then (b is true) (b is true: therefore (a is true, this is not true, this is called the converse error or affirming the consequent, this is a common argument. If the hypothesis is true then this prediction will be observe: the prediction was observed, therefore, i proved the hypothesis, another fallacy. If (a is true) the (b is true) (a is false: therefore (b is false, this is called inverse error or denying the antecedent, sound logical argument.
