Re: Remedial education needed (please help :-)

Cliff Lundberg (cliff@noevalley.com)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 11:49:15 -0800

Bill Hamilton wrote:

> If someone could provide definitions, I'd be grateful.

modus ponens:
All A's are B; X is an A; therefore X is a B

modus tollens:
If A, then B; B is not true; therefore A is not true

There's more to formal logic, but you don't want to know it.

-- Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noevalley.com