SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Justin Trudeau, Critical Thinking, Logical Reasoning

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Deductive arguments: a deductive argument intends to provide logically conclusive support for the conclusion. Inductive arguments: not all arguments are deductive- in some cases, premises are intended to give probable, not conclusive support for the conclusion. Cogency: an argument is cogent if and only if it is not valid, but if all the premises are true, the conclusion is probably true, otherwise, the argument is non-cogent. Cogent argument: quitting smoking tends to improve one"s health, mary has quit smoking. Therefore, probably: mary"s health will improve (from 1,2) Non-cogent argument: a few police of cers are corrupt, jim is a police of cer. Therefore, probably: jim is corrupt. ( from 1,2) If the answer is yes" then the argument is cogent. Therefore, probably: justin trudeau has ten legs. (from 1,2) This argument has two false premises and a false conclusion, but, its what we call cogent. Some common patterns of cogent arguments: most as are bs, x is an a.

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