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For Republican Lawyers
A Logic Review

"If A then B." Is a logical statement known as an implication. What this means is that any time A is true, B must also be true. It's a common fallacy to think that this is the same thing as "If B then A."

Now it is true that "If not B then not A" is logically equivalent. But "if not A then not B" certainly isn't! Really this is the same error as thinking "If B then A" follows from "If A then B."

I think you legal folks have a fancy latin name for this...