• borokov@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m really pissed of this “I’m sad 'cause I’m poor. So if I had money I would be happy.”

    (Poverty imply sadness) does not imply (wealth imply hapiness). That’s basic formal logic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraposition The Contraposition is (not sadness imply not poverty). So, If you are happy, you have money.

    Expressed differently, if all the poor are sad, we can state that a happy person is not poor. But we cannot state anything about a rich person being happy or not.

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      In this case, “I’m sad 'cause I’m poor” doesn’t mean “if poor, then sad”, it means “poor if, and only if, sad”. Logic is about more than symbols.