Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Hawisher 17 September 2012 05:28:39PM 0 points [-]

I was never one for formal logic, but isn't that the contrapositive? I was under the impression that the converse of p then q was q then p.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 September 2012 02:04:35AM 1 point [-]

I was under the impression that the converse of p then q was q then p.

Yes and that's what nshepperd wrote.

Comment author: Hawisher 18 September 2012 07:27:27PM 0 points [-]

Oh wow, never mind. My brain was temporarily broken. Is it considered bad etiquette here to retract incorrect comments?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 19 September 2012 04:15:41AM 1 point [-]

When you retract the comment is simply struck-through not deleted, so no.