POL 329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Vibrations, Occasionalism, Begging
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Premises: your grounds or reasons for an argument. If the premises are true, the conclusion will be true. Inference: a step of reasoning that takes you form the premises to conclusion. Valid: the step of reasoning should be reliable and you should use good reasons. There should be no transition from truth to falsehood. not possible for the premises to be true and the conclusion to be false. what would be the case if the premises were true. Sound: to say that it is not sound is to say that the reasoning is okay but we have a false premise and we have to prove that our conclusion is true. An argument can be valid if the conclusion is accurate however it can not be sound if the premise is incorrect. a sound argument can be valid. In a good argument, the premises should be more secure than the conclusion.
