The item content must be deemed valid to instill confidence in all consequent inferences.
They tend to make the affirmation of the consequent inference (B therefore A), whenever they keep in mind the initial possibility and fail to think of other true possibilities, e.g., not-A and B. They make the denial of the antecedent inference (not-A therefore not-B) when they have thought about some of the alternative possibilities (not-A and not-B) but not others (not-A and B).
The consequent inference is that Medicare claims represent an accurate data source for ascertainment of population-based patterns of surgical care among patients with early-stage kidney cancer.
However, the interpretation of this association and the consequent inference on causality remains open.
Moreover, because equilibrium-based, classic estimates of gene flow among forms are remarkably different from those estimated in a divergence, non-equilibrium framework, this study highlights the confounding effect that incomplete lineage sorting may have in migration rate estimates and consequent inference of species boundaries when recent divergence is not taken into account.
From a counterfactual, they readily make the inferences that require access to the presupposed facts (the modus tollens and denial of the antecedent inferences) as well as the inferences that require access to the conjecture (the modus ponens and affirmation of the consequent inferences) (Byrne & Tasso, 1999; see also Egan, Garcia-Madruga, & Byrne, 2009; Moreno-Rios, Garcia-Madruga, & Byrne, 2008).
So here we have a predicate, a consequent, and an alternative.
The introduction we read definitely suggested an information revolution, and a consequent shifting social structure.
Rough equality, a tendency to want what others also want, and a consequent state of war.
And there's a consequent, which is the thing you do if the predicate is true.
Progressive incision shaped the Sangro valley as a consequent valley.
