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affirming the consequent  Affirmation of the consequent  Fallacy of the consequent  affirming the consequence  Assuming the consequent
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In propositional logic, affirming the consequent, sometimes called converse error, fallacy of the converse, or confusion of necessity and sufficiency, is a formal fallacy of taking a true conditional statement under certain assumptions, and invalidly inferring its converse, even though that statement may not be true under the same assumptions. Wikipedia
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In propositional logic, affirming the consequent, sometimes called converse error, fallacy of the converse, or confusion of necessity and sufficiency, is a formal fallacy of taking a true conditional statement under certain assumptions, and invalidly inferring its converse, even though that statement may not be true under the same assumptions. Wikipedia
A formal fallacy, committed by reasoning in the form: If P, then Q. Q. Therefore, P. Wiktionary
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