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Peter ([personal profile] ptc24) wrote in [personal profile] naath 2009-06-24 07:03 pm (UTC)

Predicate logic does indeed say that it a fallacy to conclude B=>A from A=>B. However, Bayes theorem does allow a weaker version of this, and lots of the machine learning that I do (did?) at work relies on this. Also, there's the issue that no matter how strong your grasp on predicate logic is, you don't know how strong everyone else's is.

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