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  2. Affirming a disjunct - Wikipedia

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    Affirming a disjunct is a fallacy. The formal fallacy of affirming a disjunct also known as the fallacy of the alternative disjunct or a false exclusionary disjunct occurs when a deductive argument takes the following logical form: [1] A or B A Therefore, not B. Or in logical operators:

  3. Disjunct (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a disjunct is a type of adverbial adjunct that expresses information that is not considered essential to the sentence it appears in, but which is considered to be the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the sentence, "expressing, for example, the speaker's degree of truthfulness or his manner of speaking."

  4. Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise - Wikipedia

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    Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise (illicit negative) is a formal fallacy that is committed when a categorical syllogism has a positive conclusion and one or two negative premises.

  5. Material implication (rule of inference) - Wikipedia

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    Then if is true, that rules out the first disjunct, so we have . In short, P → Q {\displaystyle P\to Q} . [ 3 ] However, if P {\displaystyle P} is false, then this entailment fails, because the first disjunct ¬ P {\displaystyle \neg P} is true, which puts no constraint on the second disjunct Q {\displaystyle Q} .

  6. Affirming the consequent - Wikipedia

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    There are many places to live in California other than San Diego. On the other hand, one can affirm with certainty that "if someone does not live in California" (non-Q), then "this person does not live in San Diego" (non-P). This is the contrapositive of the first statement, and it must be true if and only if the original statement is true.

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  9. Denying the antecedent - Wikipedia

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    Informally, this means that arguments of this form do not give good reason to establish their conclusions, even if their premises are true. The name denying the antecedent derives from the premise "not P", which denies the "if" clause (antecedent) of the conditional premise.