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The Power of Logic Exam 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED) 2024/2025
- Course
- The Power Of Logic,Howard,5e
- Institution
- Harvard College
The Power of Logic Exam 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED) 2024/2025
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The Power of Logic Exam 11.Logic: The study of whether the premises of an argument adequately
support (or provide good evidence for) its conclusion.
2.Argument: A set of statements, some of which (the premises) are
intended to support, another statement (the conclusion).
3.Statement: A declarative sentence that is either true or false (even if
we don't know whether the state is true or false).
4.Conclusion: The statement affirmed on the basis of at least one other
statement.
5.Premise(s): Statement offered as support or evidence for the
conclusion.
6.Deductive argument: An argument in which the truth of the premises is
intended to guarantee the truth of the conclusion.
7.Inductive argument: An argument in which the truth of the premises are
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, intended to make the truth of the conclusion probable, without
guaranteeing its truth (the truth of the conclusion).
8.Deductive logic: The study of methods for evaluating whether the
premises of an argument guarantee its conclusion.
9.Inductive logic: The study of methods for evaluating whether the
premises of argument make its conclusion probable, without
guaranteeing it.
10.Valid argument: An argument in which it is necessary that, if the
premises are true, then the conclusion is true; It is not possible for its
conclusion to be false if its premises are true.
11.Invalid Argument: An argument in which it is not necessary that if the
premises are true, then the conclusion is true; It is possible for the
conclusion to be false even if all the premises are true.
12.Deductively sound argument: An argument with these two features:
1) all of its premises are true and
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