From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Sat Oct 04 2003 - 10:54:50 MDT
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/politics/04WEAP.html?th
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Speaking emphatically on the South Lawn of the White House, Mr. Bush
said the preliminary findings of active research projects in Iraq and
efforts to obtain missiles proved that "Saddam Hussein was a danger to
the world."
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[Blunderov]
Do I understand the President to be saying, in effect:
All weapons of mass destruction are a danger to the world,
Therefore all dangers to the world are weapons of mass destruction?*
Sounds like that to me.
Best Regards
http://gncurtis.home.texas.net/illiconv.html
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Illicit Conversion
AKA: False Conversion
Type: Fallacy of Quantificational Logic
Forms: All P are Q.
Therefore, all Q are P. Some P are not Q.
Therefore, some Q are not P.
Similar Validating Forms: No P are Q.
Therefore, no Q are P. Some P are Q.
Therefore, some Q are P.
Examples: All communists are atheists.
Therefore, all atheists are communists. Some dogs are not pets.
Therefore, some pets are not dogs.
Counter-examples: All dogs are mammals.
Therefore, all mammals are dogs. Some mammals are not cats.
Therefore, some cats are not mammals.
Exposition:
Conversion is a validating form of immediate inference for E- and I-type
categorical propositions. To convert such a proposition is to switch the
subject and predicate terms of the proposition, which is non-validating
for the A- and O-type propositions. Hence, the fallacy of Illicit
Conversion is converting an A- or O-type proposition.
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*The reason for attacking Iraq was given as the existence, or imminent
existence of WOMD.
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