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Jon Awbrey
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There's a mode of inference that has become so popular in certain quarters that I decided it was time to fashion a suitable name for it. It goes a bit like this:

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If A, then B.

Not B.

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But A simply has to be !!!


I know some scholars will quibble that it should be called “modus dolendo dolens” or something, but let's not be petty.

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