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It is a logical conditional statement which states that if some condition, a, is satisfied then another condition, b, must be satisfied. If a is not satisfied then we can say nothing about b.
An equivalent statement, in a non-conditional form, is that
~b or a must be TRUE, where ~b denotes not b.
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What is Inverse statement?
It is what you get in an inference, after negating both sides. That is, if you have a statement such as: if a then b the inverse of this statement is: if not a then not b Note that the inverse is NOT equivalent to the original statement.
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