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Anonymous Sun Aug 19 01:13:07 2018 No.9946062

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>1. Even if Euler had not died in 1783 he would still be dead today.

>2. If Euler were alive today, he would have died in 1783.

A clearer way to say 1. is "If Euler's life did not end in 1783, it would have ended before the present." The contrapositive of this is "If Euler was still alive, his life would have ended in 1783" which is essentially statement 2.

This means statement 1. is logically false even though we have knowledge that people only live 150 years or so, tempting us to say it's true; 2. is an equivalent statement and obviously false.