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Re:USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment by konjin on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:19AM (#25630932)
Calling out logical fallacies is a logical fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

It comes from not understanding the difference between logical entailment and logical equivalence when given a set of premises and a conclusion. I'd've hoped programmers would have taken enough discrete maths to know this.

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Re:USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment by DaiPlusPlus on Monday January 04, 2021 @09:36AM (#25631821)
> I'd've hoped programmers would have taken enough discrete maths to know this.

It’s not that I haven’t - but I’m 8 years out of uni and have completely forgotten how to apply Modus tollens and I suspect I’m not alone.

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