SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Validity

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: Andrew Hunter

Document Summary

Deductive argument: an argument intended to provide logically conclusive support for its. Inductive argument: an argument in which the premises are intended to provide probable, not conclusion conclusive, support for its conclusion. Valid argument: a deductive argument that succeeds in providing conclusive/logical support. Truth preserving: a characteristic of valid argument in which the logical structure guarantees the truth of the conclusion if the premises are true. Such that if its premises are true, its conclusion must be true. Valid is a technical term, it"s not a synonym for true. Sheldon is a physicist, all physicists are good at math. Therefore sheldon is good at math conclusion. Invalid argument: a deductive argument that fails to provide conclusive support for its. The conclusion does not follow logically from the premises, premises are true, however the conclusions are false which makes them invalid. Sheldon is a physicist, sheldon is a man.