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Re:A Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical People Are by dnautics on Friday May 22, 2015 @04:50PM (#9590852)
I agree. It is definitely not an issue of phrasing. I have had so many discussions where people fail to comprehend the concrete differences between converse, inverse, contrapositive, especially in relation to causality/mechanism. To me this seems to be especially bad in political discussions on facebook, but also, is even a critical issue among some PhD level synthetic organic chemistry students - where "mechanism" is a very important concept.

I am certain that these people would miss this problem on a first pass, second pass, and maybe even third or fourth pass.

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