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Good deductive arguments guarantee their conclusions, and so must be valid (i.e., it must be impossible for the premises to be true while the conclusion is false) and have true premises.  Philosophers call arguments like these “sound”.  You can see whether an argument is sound by trying to think of a counterexample to it, butContinue reading “Learning notes-philosophy”

the critical thing is making sure we have good reasons for our beliefs an argument is a set of statements, which we call premises, that together comprise a reason for another statement, which we call the argument’s conclusion. the deductive argument is if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true. the ampliative argumentContinue reading “Learning notes1-philosophy”