{"id":9302,"date":"2012-10-09T16:14:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/09\/the-converse-does-not-hold\/"},"modified":"2012-10-09T16:14:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T16:14:40","slug":"the-converse-does-not-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/09\/the-converse-does-not-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Converse Does Not Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If you paid attention in Logic 101 you may remember that the immediate inference called &#39;conversion&#39;&#0160;is valid &#0160;for the I and E forms of the traditional square of opposition but not for the A and O forms.&#0160; Poetic illustration courtesy of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) where &#39;Every poet is a fool&#39; is an A-proposition:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Sir, I admit your gen&#39;ral rule<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">That every poet is a fool:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">But you yourself may serve to show it,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">That every fool is not a poet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">(<em>Epigrams and Epitaphs<\/em>, Faber &amp; Faber, 1977, p. 82)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you paid attention in Logic 101 you may remember that the immediate inference called &#39;conversion&#39;&#0160;is valid &#0160;for the I and E forms of the traditional square of opposition but not for the A and O forms.&#0160; Poetic illustration courtesy of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) where &#39;Every poet is a fool&#39; is an A-proposition: Sir, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/09\/the-converse-does-not-hold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Converse Does Not Hold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logica-utens","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}