PHIL 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deductive Reasoning

• School: American River College
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 320
• Professor: Professor Lopez

Document Summary

Unlike a deductive argument, the conclusion of any inductive argument is never meant to follow with necessity, from the premises, but (at best) only with a certain degree of probability. In a valid (or strong) inductive argument, if the premises are true then the truth of the conclusion follows with a high degree of probability. The higher the probability, the stronger the inductive inference. In an invalid ( or weak) inductive argument, if the premises are true, the conclusion only follows with very low to no probability.