A Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition
. Fallacy of arguing that if the consequent of a conditional statement is true, so is the antecedent, e.g., ‘If all cats are black, Tiddles is black; and Tiddles is black; so all cats are black.’ Sometimes, however, such an argument may be acceptable if regarded as inductive.
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