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    The document provides an example of using Modus Tollens to show that an argument is valid. It presents an argument in propositional logic form: (p → q) ∧ (~q) → (~p), where p is "The housing market crashes" and q is "all my investments suffer". The document concludes that this argument is valid by Modus Tollens, which is the logical rule that if p implies q and not q, then not p.

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    The document provides an example of using Modus Tollens to show that an argument is valid. It presents an argument in propositional logic form: (p → q) ∧ (~q) → (~p), where p is "The housing market crashes" and q is "all my investments suffer". The document concludes that this argument is valid by Modus Tollens, which is the logical rule that if p implies q and not q, then not p.

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    Sample Use of Modus Tolens

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    The document provides an example of using Modus Tollens to show that an argument is valid. It presents an argument in propositional logic form: (p → q) ∧ (~q) → (~p), where p is "The housing market crashes" and q is "all my investments suffer". The document concludes that this argument is valid by Modus Tollens, which is the logical rule that if p implies q and not q, then not p.

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    SAMPLE

    USES OF
    MODUS
    TOLLENS
    Show that the argument is valid.

    • If the housing market crashes, then all of my


    investments will suffer. My investments have not
    suffered. Therefore, the housing market has not
    crashed.
    Answer

    • Let p: “The housing market crashes”, q: “all of my


    investments suffer”. In proposition form[(𝑝 → 𝑞) ∧
    (~𝑞)] → (~𝑝). Hence, the argument is valid by virtue of
    the “Modus Tollens”.

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