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Philosophy and Philosophers question: What is the difference between valid and sound argument? A valid argument is an argument whose conclusion follows...
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A sound argument is a valid argument with true premises. The corresponding conditional, of a valid argument is a necessary truth (true in all possible...
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The most fundamental concept in logic is that of an argument. An argument must be distinguished from "arguing", which is a debate or disagreement between different people. The logical concept of an argument is: a set of statements, one of which is the conclusion , the others are premises, and the premises support...
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Encyclopedia: Validity
The term validity as it occurs in logic refers generally to a property of deductive arguments, although many logic texts apply the term to statements (where a "statement" is something that has a truth...
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Validity is a property of the argument's form. It doesn't matter what the premises and the conclusion actually say. It just matters whether the argument has the right form. So, in particular, a valid argument need not have true premises, nor need it have a true conclusion.
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So we shall make use of this idea to define the notion of a deductively valid argument, or valid argument, as follows: Although the two premises of this argument are false, this is actually a valid argument. To evaluate its validity, ask yourself whether it is possible to come up with a situation where all the...
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Clearly she is drawing a distinction between a "valid argument" and a "true argument." Yes, the conditional is valid. IF BS were from Mars AND Martians had...
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If the answer is yes, then the argument is valid. If the answer is no, then the argument is invalid. Mostly what any logician would be doing is staring at the underlying PATTERN that exists for any argument. By simply recognizing the pattern, a logician would know instantly if the argument is valid or invalid.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Valid argument. Valid argument. Information about Valid argument in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. (redirected from Valid argument)
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