A syllogism is a form of deductive argument with two premises and one conclusion. Validity and soundness of deductive arguments A deductive argument is said to be valid if the truthfulness of the premises necessitates that the conclusion be true. A deductive argument is said to be sound if the...
In other words, if you accept the premises of this argument, you must then accept the conclusion. Twitter users often accept a flawed syllogism by using a conclusion as one of the premises—namely, that the platform spreads truthful information. If you accept this as a premise, you...
It’s a syllogism after all, a logical progression whose premise is demonstrably false. As a claim based on falsehood its logic, though at first glance lucid and clear, is flawed, its message corrupted and hence untrustworthy. Claims based on lies seem to flow quite logically, adopt the loo...
I can express all of this in a very simple mathematical syllogism: 1 > 0 > –1. And while you might be thinking that this expression is so obvious as to be outright dumb, here is what I think: Now that you have learned that little bit of moral arithmetic, you can’t unlearn it....
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The conclusion is true but the syllogism is invalid as it is an improper way of reaching a true conclusion. Also when you say that one is saved “only by faith” or by “faith alone” you have both not qualified faith and have excluded thereby anything which faith may imply you have ma...
An analytic proposition is one whose truth follows with certainty if the premises are true; such propositions are associated with deductive statements and include logical truths or syllogisms. In contrast, a synthetic proposition is one whose truth depends on the relationship between its meaning and ...
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I buy this argument, as I think it offers an entirely plausible causality. But it is susceptible to the all-too-frequent objection thatthe causality is nevertheless unclear. I think there’s a fair bit more to this. That Loughner’s act may have been caused by mental illness doesn’t su...