PSYC 2145 Study Guide - Final Guide: Availability Heuristic, Risk-Seeking, Inductive Reasoning
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A syllogism is valid if the conclusion statement follows logically from its two premises: categorical syllogism a logical argument containing two premises and a conclusion, and concerned with the properties of, and relations between, categories. Therefore, all trees require nourishment. : conditional syllogism if a is true then b is also true. (if a then b). It appears through a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion: conditional syllogisms are more simple and upfront than categorical syllogisms. Categorical syllogisms are focused on relationships between items in categories. This can be thought of in the same manner and you think about hierarchical structures in memory: valid deductive inference. If two premises of a valid syllogism are true, the syllogism conclusion must be true. Equivalently: if the syllogism is valid, then the conclusion is true in all those cases in which the premises are true: an argument can be valid even if the statements within it are not true .
