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- Adverb phrase as antecedent g. Fred works hard, but Tom does not do the same. - Verb phrase as antecedent h. Susan lies all the time, which everybody knows about. - Entire clause as antecedent i. Our politicians have been pandering again. This demotivates the voters. - Entire sentence as antecedent j. Rob is a dentist and, as such, he fixes ...
–The anaphor it follows the expression to which it refers (its antecedent). b. Our neighbors i dislike the music. If they i are angry, the cops will show up soon. – The anaphor they follows the expression to which it refers (its antecedent). Cataphora a. If they i are angry about the music, the neighbors i will call the cops.
If an antecedent is a thing, either specific or generic (such as a snowman), [3] rather than a person, the appropriate pronoun to refer back to it is it, and no difficulty arises. Likewise, if the antecedent is more than one thing, again either specific or generic, the pronoun they is used to refer back to it, and again no difficulty arises.
The name denying the antecedent derives from the premise "not P", which denies the "if" clause (antecedent) of the conditional premise. The only situation where one may deny the antecedent would be if the antecedent and consequent represent the same proposition, in which case the argument is trivially valid (and it would beg the question ...
The form of the post hoc fallacy is expressed as follows: . A occurred, then B occurred.; Therefore, A caused B. When B is undesirable, this pattern is often combined with the formal fallacy of denying the antecedent, assuming the logical inverse holds: believing that avoiding A will prevent B.
In the classical relational framework, when using a standard notion of entailment, the strict conditional is monotonic, i.e. it validates Antecedent Strengthening. To see why, observe that if P → Q {\displaystyle P\rightarrow Q} holds at every world accessible from w {\displaystyle w} , the monotonicity of the material conditional guarantees ...
Antecedent (behavioral psychology), the stimulus that occurs before a trained behavior; Antecedent (genealogy), antonym of descendant, genealogical predecessor in family line; Antecedent (logic), the first half of a hypothetical proposition; Antecedent moisture, in hydrology, the relative wetness condition of a catchment
An event or antecedent is considered causal if mutating that event will lead to undoing the outcome. Some events are more mutable than others. Exceptional events (e.g., taking an unusual route then getting into an accident) are more mutable than normal events (e.g., taking a usual route and getting into an accident). [31]