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by kbrkbr 605 days ago
In philosophy there is also the saying:

The modus ponens of one side is the modus tollens of the other side.

Meaning that when one side in philosophy says: from A (their body of arguments) follows B, and A holds, thus B must hold. A&B, A => B is called modus ponens.

Then the other side will say: from A follows B, and B does clearly not hold, thus A does not (or cannot) hold. A&B, ~B => ~A is called modus tollens.

Just wanted to add this here because that's how in my experience the discussion of such topics close to one's self tend to unfold.