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Premise #1 – X and Y both building rocket ships that can get to Mars
Premise #2 – X and Y rockets have the exact same design
Conclusion: One of the companies copied the other.
(A) is not strong enough for us to be confident that some kind of spying wasn’t going on. Anyhow, even if the engineers remain mum, there are presumably non-engineers aware of the rocket who could share information to the other company.
(B) The focus is on how the design of the two rockets is identical. The
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Premise #1 – X and Y both building rocket ships that can get to Mars
Premise #2 – X and Y rockets have the exact same design
Conclusion: One of the companies copied the other.
(A) is not strong enough for us to be confident that some kind of spying wasn’t going on. Anyhow, even if the engineers remain mum, there are presumably non-engineers aware of the rocket who could share information to the other company.
(B) The focus is on how the design of the two rockets is identical. The
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