Cyan comments on Your Evolved Intuitions - Less Wrong
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Actually, it's:
If P, then Q is plausible. Q. Therefore P is plausible.
And it's a valid argument in probability theory as extended logic; see the first chapter of Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, which is available on the linked webpage.