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Definition of “denying the antecedent”

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denying the antecedent

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(logic) the fallacy of inferring the falsehood of the consequent of a conditional statement, given the truth of the conditional and the falsehood of its antecedent, as if there are five of them, there are more than four: there are not five, so there are not more than four

See antecedent (sense 5)

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