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- Latin · derived frommodus ponendo ponens
- English todaymodus ponens
From Latin modus ponendo ponens (roughly, “mode where affirming affirms”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
modus ponens
Today it means: A valid form of argument in which the antecedent of a conditional proposition is affirmed, thereby entailing the affirmation of the consequent. Modus ponens has the form Full definition →
Latin modus ponendo ponens