| This formal fallacy is often mistaken for modus ponens, a valid form of reasoning also using a conditional. |
| The first three points are a valid form of argument, in the form of modus ponens. |
| Robustness was meant to ensure that an assertable conditional is fit for modus ponens. |
| He maintained that these methodological principles underlie evaluative practice in science just as modus ponens underlies deductive inference. |
| They show how to use their account to solve Wollheim's paradox of democracy and to save modus ponens. |
| At first glance, it might seem that the argument above works by straightforward factual detachment by modus ponens, with 2B providing the factual premise. |
