PHIL145 Chapter 2: Chapter 2

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL145
• Professor: Ted Richards

Document Summary

Inductive argument this is a quality of arguments that is less technical than validity and soundness, but which entails that the reasoning put forward makes sense and seems to support the conclusion. Just in case it makes its conclusion rationally credible - that is, rationally believable. Arguments that are invalid simply don"t work arguments that are technically invalid because they have premises that are implied but not explicitly stated. Arguments are technically invalid in the sense that they have premises that are left unstated, which the audience is supposed to understand from the context. Invalid argument = premises unstated (implied) an argument in which the conclusions go beyond what is expressed in the premises. This type of argument may be cogent even if it is. Arguments in which the conclusion amplifies on the premises, expressing information that cannot be validly inferred from them. The conclusion expresses information that is no explicitly or implicitly expressed by the premises.