PHIL 1104 Final: PHIL 1104 Study Guide
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Informally a piece of reasoning put forward to support some thesis or claim. Formally a sequence of statements, the last of which (the conclusion) follows the premises. Rationally persuasive true premises that support the conclusion through good reasoning. A sentence that describes the world as being a certain way. Can be true or false, but must be able to be true or false or else it is not a statement. Deductive validity the truth of the premises would guarantee the conclusion be true; if the premises were true, the conclusion must also be true. An argument can still be deductively valid if the premises are false and the conclusion is false as well. Example of logical form; if one argument"s logical form is deductively valid, then all others with this form will be as well. ******not true in terms of the world, just in terms of logical form. All dolphins are republicans (as are bs)
