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Arguendo is a Latin legal term meaning for the sake of argument. "Assuming, arguendo, that ..."and similar phrases are used in courtroom settings, academic legal settings, and occasionally in other domains, to designate provisional and unendorsed assumptions that will be made at the beginning of an argument in order to explore their implications.
An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀξίωμα ( axíōma ), meaning 'that which is thought worthy or fit' or 'that which commends itself as evident'.
In classical rhetoric and logic, begging the question or assuming the conclusion (Latin: petītiō principiī) is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion.
Synonym for assertion, the axiom that (A ∧ (A → B)) → B. [243] [244] punctuation In logic, refers to parentheses and brackets. [245] pure first-order logic The system of first-order logic that contains no function symbols or identity, only predicate symbols. [246] pure predicate logic See pure first-order logic. Putnam's model-theoretic ...
The assumption that if the origin of an idea comes from a biased mind, then the idea itself must also be a falsehood. [ 38 ] Appeal to authority (argument from authority, argumentum ad verecundiam ) – an assertion is deemed true because of the position or authority of the person asserting it.
[1] [2] [3] Assuming a variable is homoscedastic when in reality it is heteroscedastic (/ ˌ h ɛ t ər oʊ s k ə ˈ d æ s t ɪ k /) results in unbiased but inefficient point estimates and in biased estimates of standard errors, and may result in overestimating the goodness of fit as measured by the Pearson coefficient.
A demonic California dad has been arrested for allegedly beheading his 1-year-old son Friday in an early-morning frenzy of violence that also injured his wife and her mother, according to police.
The above argument works because the exact same reasoning could be applied if the alternative assumption, namely, that the first object is blue, were made, or, similarly, that the words 'red' and 'blue' can be freely exchanged in the wording of the proof. As a result, the use of "without loss of generality" is valid in this case.