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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by adarsh_p on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:06PM (#17878416)
The inverse of your example sentence would be something like - "I don't have a good immune system, so I would need medicine if I got a cold" - which makes sense, and is analogous to "Reality is not different, so we do need affirmative action."
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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by nostrademons on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:13PM (#17878522)
The inverse of a proposition is not logically entailed by the proposition itself. You're looking for the contrapositive, but the contrapositive of his example is "I need medicine if I got a cold, so I do not have a good immune system."
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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by adarsh_p on Thursday August 30, 2018 @09:29PM (#17882264)
Got it, thanks for the explanations!
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