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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 May 2015 05:22:48PM 0 points [-]

These conclusions must,by definition, be logically implied by the original hypothetical or nobody would be able to make them, so you can describe them as being equivalent to P.

But that would be a misleading description.

Comment author: Jiro 12 May 2015 05:28:46PM 0 points [-]

Of course it's a misleading description, that's my point. RK said that OW's post was "Suppose P would be true? Then P would be true!" His reason for saying that, as far as I could tell, is that the conclusions of the hypothetical were logically implied by the hypothetical. I don't buy that.

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