PHIL 2240 Lecture 3: Argument's and the Problem of the Criterion
13 Oct 2018
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An argument consists of a set of sentences consisting of one or more premises, which contain the evidence and a conclusion, which is supposed to follow from the premises. Is it good because the premises are true, but true isn"t what were after because we could say socrates is a fish. Logical entailment-> the truth of the premises is irrelevant for the argument to be good. If the premises imply the conclusion, then the argument in question is a good one. If the premises are true then the conclusion must be true. An argument is deductively valid so long as the argument is such that the conclusion must be true. You can find a good argument if the premises are true, then the. If the conclusion doesn"t follow then it"s invalid. If someone argument is good then the conclusion follows from the premises. We want to know if an argument is valid.
