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Logic the rule whereby the consequent of a true conditional statement, given the truth of its antecedent, may be asserted on its own


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They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces and were awaiting orders to march.
Should he send another detachment to the rescue of the first?
So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
 
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