One of the best courses I took in college was Math - Logic or the system used to determine the validity of people's argument forms. It is true in all stages of life and used very much in Law, Legal, and Political arguments!
Much of the Mass Data distributed today is based upon hopeful desires of certain controlling political groups
Much of the legal and political, or historical language must follow some form of Logic to be either Valid or Invalid! Because otherwise many parties just " Blowing Smoke " or put out falsehoods which is where much of the News or Political- socialist jargon comes from!
*** Which is pure Propaganda or Not True!
All logic argument forms fall into one of the following; there must be a proposition or statement which goes on to either prove the conclusion true or false!
Much of life is examined or explained as either:
- An argument form is either deductive or inductive:
Where the deduction form when it which claims it's premises provide conclusive evidence.
Which can be either:
Valid/correct or else invalid/incorrect.
A Valid argument can not the true unless all of it's premises support the conclusion!
Valid means the premises and conclusion are so related that it is absolutely impossible for all the premises to be true unless the conclusion is also true!
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- While an inductive form claims only that it's premises provide some evidence for the truth of it's conclusion.
Which are neither:
Valid/correct nor invalid/incorrect
Which may be evaluated as either better or worse to a degree of likelihood or probability!
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Truth and falsehood may be predicted from the propositions, but never arguments.
While a Sound argument is where the conclusion is always true!
If a deductive argument fails to establish the absolute truth of of the conclusions is then it is unsound:
Which does not mean either valid; nor that not all of it's premises are true!
There has to be either a correctness or incorrectness of any argument form! There are never any half right arguments...
The Language used is either:
Informative = Cause and effect
Expressive = Personal feelings
Directive = Order or command
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Once you get a firm understanding of Logic;
you should then be able to know if an argument is either true or false!
** Part 2 will discuss Many of the informal Argument form fallacies used !
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