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Deductive Argument

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An argument that assumes premises to work towards a conclusion,

For it to be valid, the premises logically necessitate the conclusion. For it to be sound, the argument must be both valid and have all sound premises.

You cannot disprove the premises, you can only disprove the connectivity of premises to lead to the conclusion. It is a logical argument

Form

All arguments can have this form:

  1. (premise)
  2. (1)
  3. (premise)
  4. …
  5. Therefore

Examples

  1. All men are mortal
  2. Socartes is a man
  3. Therefore socartes is mortal

Argument Choice

You can either:

  • Accept the conclusion (You can be so confident in the conclusion that you don’t pay heed to the premises)
  • Reject the premises (You can’t reject the conclusion without rejecting the premises)
    • You dont necessarily need to think the premise is wrong, you just need to value your own conclusion more than the premise to reject it.

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