the principle that whenever a conditional statement and its antecedent are given to be true its consequent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and it's Tuesday so this must be Belgium
Word origin
literally: mood that affirms
Examples of 'modus ponens' in a sentence
modus ponens
Software was developed to implement the decision-making model with fuzzy rule modus ponens.
Bozhenyuk Alexander, Bozheniuk Vitalii, Khamidulina Alexandra 2015, 'Fuzzy Deductive Inference Scheme Application in Solving the Problem of Modelling Movementsof the Hand Prosthesis', Information Technology and Management Sciencehttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/itms.2015.18.issue-1/itms-2015-0002/itms-2015-0002.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Thus, the logical form of legal qualification has a structure of conditional-categorical syllogism, modus ponens.
Олена Миколаївна Юркевич 2019, 'COMPLEX CHARACTER OF LOGIC IN LEGAL METHODOLOGY', Вісник НЮУ імені Ярослава Мудрого: Серія: Філософія, філософія права, політологія,соціологіяhttp://fil.nlu.edu.ua/article/view/155749. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)