Perplexed comments on Rationality Quotes: January 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 25 January 2011 01:09:05AM 2 points [-]

Huh?? If you allow quantification over propositions, you are no longer using first order logic.

I think you were closer to being on track before your edit. The first thing to realize is that a fallacy is not a false statement. It is an invalid inference scheme or rule of inference.

So, with P and Q taken to be schematic variables (to be instantiated as propositions), the following is a fallacy (affirming the consequent):

P -> Q |- Q -> P

Or, you could have simply corrected the words "additional axiom" in the quoted claim to "additional axiom scheme".