What is a valid argument and how is it different from a sound argument

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What is a valid argument and how is it different from a sound argument

A sound argument is necessarily valid, but a valid argument need not be sound. The argument form that derives every $A$ is a $C$ from the premises every $A$ is a $B$ and every $B$ is a $C$, is valid, so every instance of it is a valid argument. Now take $A$ to be prime number, $B$ to be multiple of $4$, and $C$ to be even number. The argument is: If every prime number is a multiple of $4$, and every multiple of $4$ is an even number, then every prime number is even. This argument is valid: it's an instance of the valid argument form given above. It is not sound, however, because the first premise is false. Your example is not a sound argument: $q$ is true, so the premise $\sim q$ is false. It is a valid argument, however, because for any $p$ and $q$, if $p\lor q$ and $\sim q$ are both true, then $p$ must indeed be true. Note that an unsound argument may have a true or a false conclusion. Your unsound argument has a true conclusion, $p$ (Jesse is my husband); mine above has a false conclusion (every prime number is even). The key difference between sound and unsound argument is that a sound argument is valid and has true premises whereas an unsound argument is invalid and/or has at least one false premises. Soundness is a technical feature of an argument. It helps us to determine whether the conclusion of an argument is true. Although many people assume that soundness refers to the validity of an argument, this is not so. A valid argument is not necessarily a sound argument. In fact, soundness of an argument is determined by two factors: validity and truth of the premises. CONTENT 1. Overview and Key Difference 2. What is an Argument 3. What is a Sound Argument 4. What is an Unsound Argument 5. Side by Side Comparison ? Sound vs Unsound Argument in Tabular Form 6. Summary What is an Argument? In the field of logic and philosophy, an argument is a series of statements intended to determine the degree of truth of another statement. Premises and conclusions are the building blocks of an argument. Premises are a series of statements that provide reasons or evidence to determine the truth of a conclusion. Therefore, an argument can have more than one premise. A conclusion in an argument is the main point the arguer is trying to prove. Thus, an argument has only one conclusion and one or more premises. Let's look at an example: Premise 1: No one under eighteen-years-old can vote. Premise 2: Rogan is under eighteen. Conclusion: Therefore, Rogan cannot vote. What is a Sound Argument? An argument must fulfill two requirements in order to be considered as sound. One requirement is that the argument must be valid. An argument is valid when its conclusion follows logically from the premises. In other words, it is impossible for the premises of an argument to be true while the conclusion is false. The second requirement is that all its premises should be true. Thus, a sound argument is a valid argument that has true premises. Figure 01: A Sound Argument The following is a sound argument as it contains true premises and is valid. All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. What is an Unsound Argument? An unsound argument is the opposite of a sound argument. Thus, an unsound argument can be either valid or invalid. However, if the argument is valid, it has at least one false premise in order to consider it as an unsound argument. Figure 02: An Unsound Argument Examples of Sound and Unsound Arguments Let's look at some examples of sound and sound arguments now. Example 1: All multiples of 10 are multiples of 5. 20 is a multiple of 10. Therefore, 20 is a multiple of 5. It is a valid argument since the conclusion logically follows from the premises. Moreover, it has true premises. Therefore, this is a sound argument. Example 2: All cats are pink. Toffee is a cat. Therefore, Toffee is pink. The above is a valid argument too since the conclusion logically follows from the premises. However, the first premise is not true. Therefore, this is an unsound argument. Example 3: All cows are mammals. All dogs are mammals. Therefore, dogs are cows. The above argument contains true premises, but it is invalid since the conclusion doesn't logically follow from the premises. Therefore, it is also an unsound argument. What is the Difference Between Sound and Unsound Argument? A sound argument is an argument that is valid and has true premises while an unsound argument is an argument that is invalid or has at least one false premises. Hence, this is the key difference between sound and unsound argument. Therefore, a sound argument always has true premises and true conclusions whereas an unsound argument may have both false and true premises and conclusions. Thus, this leads to another difference between sound and unsound argument. The following infographic presents the difference between sound and unsound argument in brief. Validity and the truth of the premises are the two factors that determine the soundness of an argument. A sound argument is an argument that is valid and has true premises while an unsound argument is an argument that is invalid or has at least one false premises. Thus, this is the key difference between sound and unsound argument. Reference: 1. Wiki.. (2019). Sound argument ? Lesswrongwiki. [online] Available here. 2. En.. (2019). Soundness. [online] Available here. 3. YouTube. (2019). What are `Valid and Sound?' ? Gentleman Thinker Available here. Hasa is a BA graduate in the field of Humanities and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in the field of English language and literature. Her areas of interests include language, literature, linguistics and culture. Validity and Invalidity, Soundness and Unsoundness The task of an argument is to provide statements (premises) that give evidence for the conclusion. There are two basic kinds of arguments. Deductive argument: involves the claim that the truth of its premises guarantees the truth of its conclusion; the terms valid and invalid are used to characterize deductive arguments. A deductive argument succeeds when, if you accept the evidence as true (the premises), you must accept the conclusion. Inductive argument: involves the claim that the truth of its premises provides some grounds for its conclusion or makes the conclusion more probable; the terms valid and invalid cannot be applied. Valid: an argument is valid if and only if it is necessary that if all of the premises are true, then the conclusion is true; if all the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true; it is impossible that all the premises are true and the conclusion is false. Invalid: an argument that is not valid. We can test for invalidity by assuming that all the premises are true and seeing whether it is still possible for the conclusion to be false. If this is possible, the argument is invalid. Validity and invalidity apply only to arguments, not statements. For our purposes, it is just nonsense to call a statement valid or invalid. True and false apply only to statements, not arguments. For our purposes, it is just nonsense to call an argument true or false. All deductive arguments aspire to validity. If you consider the definitions of validity and invalidity carefully, you'll note that valid arguments have the following important property: valid arguments preserve truth. If all your premises are true and you make a valid argument from them, it must be the case that whatever conclusion you obtain is true. (We shall see below, however, that valid arguments do not necessarily preserve truth value: it is entirely possible to argue validly from false premises to a true conclusion). Sound: an argument is sound if and only if it is valid and contains only true premises. Unsound: an argument that is not sound. Counterexample: an example which contradicts some statement or argument (ex. a counterexample to the statement "All fifteen year-olds have blue hair" would be a fifteen-year-old without blue hair); for an argument, a counterexample would be a situation in which the premises of the argument are true and the conclusion is false; counterexamples show statements to be false and arguments to be invalid. IV. Forms of Argument A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion nevertheless to be false. Otherwise, a deductive argument is said to be invalid. A deductive argument is sound if and only if it is both valid, and all of its premises are actually true. Otherwise, a deductive argument is unsound. According to the definition of a deductive argument (see the Deduction and Induction), the author of a deductive argument always intends that the premises provide the sort of justification for the conclusion whereby if the premises are true, the conclusion is guaranteed to be true as well. Loosely speaking, if the author's process of reasoning is a good one, if the premises actually do provide this sort of justification for the conclusion, then the argument is valid. In effect, an argument is valid if the truth of the premises logically guarantees the truth of the conclusion. The following argument is valid, because it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion nevertheless to be false: Elizabeth owns either a Honda or a Saturn. Elizabeth does not own a Honda. Therefore, Elizabeth owns a Saturn. It is important to stress that the premises of an argument do not have actually to be true in order for the argument to be valid. An argument is valid if the premises and conclusion are related to each other in the right way so that if the premises were true, then the conclusion would have to be true as well. We can recognize in the above case that even if one of the premises is actually false, that if they had been true the conclusion would have been true as well. Consider, then an argument such as the following: All toasters are items made of gold. All items made of gold are time-travel devices. Therefore, all toasters are time-travel devices. Obviously, the premises in this argument are not true. It may be hard to imagine these premises being true, but it is not hard to see that if they were true, their truth would logically guarantee the conclusion's truth. It is easy to see that the previous example is not an example of a completely good argument. A valid argument may still have a false conclusion. When we construct our arguments, we must aim to construct one that is not only valid, but sound. A sound argument is one that is not only valid, but begins with premises that are actually true. The example given about toasters is valid, but not sound. However, the following argument is both valid and sound: In some states, no felons are eligible voters, that is, eligible to vote. In those states, some professional athletes are felons. Therefore, in some states, some professional athletes are not eligible voters. Here, not only do the premises provide the right sort of support for the conclusion, but the premises are actually true. Therefore, so is the conclusion. Although it is not part of the definition of a sound argument, because sound arguments both start out with true premises and have a form that guarantees that the conclusion must be true if the premises are, sound arguments always end with true conclusions. It should be noted that both invalid, as well as valid but unsound, arguments can nevertheless have true conclusions. One cannot reject the conclusion of an argument simply by discovering a given argument for that conclusion to be flawed. Whether or not the premises of an argument are true depends on their specific content. However, according to the dominant understanding among logicians, the validity or invalidity of an argument is determined entirely by its logical form. The logical form of an argument is that which remains of it when one abstracts away from the specific content of the premises and the conclusion, that is, words naming things, their properties and relations, leaving only those elements that are common to discourse and reasoning about any subject matter, that is, words such as "all," "and," "not," "some," and so forth. One can represent the logical form of an argument by replacing the specific content words with letters used as place-holders or variables. For example, consider these two arguments: All tigers are mammals. No mammals are creatures with scales. Therefore, no tigers are creatures with scales. All spider monkeys are elephants. No elephants are animals. Therefore, no spider monkeys are animals. These arguments share the same form: All A are B; No B are C; Therefore, No A are C. All arguments with this form are valid. Because they have this form, the examples above are valid. However, the first example is sound while the second is unsound, because its premises are false. Now consider: All basketballs are round. The Earth is round. Therefore, the Earth is a basketball. All popes reside at the Vatican. John Paul II resides at the Vatican. Therefore, John Paul II is a pope. These arguments also have the same form: All A's are F; X is F; Therefore, X is an A. Arguments with this form are invalid. This is easy to see with the first example. The second example may seem like a good argument because the premises and the conclusion are all true, but note that the conclusion's truth isn't guaranteed by the premises' truth. It could have been possible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false. This argument is invalid, and all invalid arguments are unsound. While it is accepted by most contemporary logicians that logical validity and invalidity is determined entirely by form, there is some dissent. Consider, for example, the following arguments: My table is circular. Therefore, it is not square shaped. Juan is a bachelor. Therefore, he is not married. These arguments, at least on the surface, have the form: x is F; Therefore, x is not G. Arguments of this form are not valid as a rule. However, it seems clear in these particular cases that it is, in some strong sense, impossible for the premises to be true while the conclusion is false. However, many logicians would respond to these complications in various ways. Some might insist?although this is controverisal?that these arguments actually contain implicit premises such as "Nothing is both circular and square shaped" or "All bachelors are unmarried," which, while themselves necessary truths, nevertheless play a role in the form of these arguments. It might also be suggested, especially with the first argument, that while (even without the additional premise) there is a necessary connection between the premise and the conclusion, the sort of necessity involved is something other than "logical" necessity, and hence that this argument (in the simple form) should not be regarded as logically valid. Lastly, especially with regard to the second example, it might be suggested that because "bachelor" is defined as "adult unmarried male", that the true logical form of the argument is the following universally valid form: x is F and not G and H; Therefore, x is not G. The logical form of a statement is not always as easy to discern as one might expect. For example, statements that seem to have the same surface grammar can nevertheless differ in logical form. Take for example the two statements: (1) Tony is a ferocious tiger. (2) Clinton is a lame duck. Despite their apparent similarity, only (1) has the form "x is a A that is F." From it one can validly infer that Tony is a tiger. One cannot validly infer from (2) that Clinton is a duck. Indeed, one and the same sentence can be used in different ways in different contexts. Consider the statement: (3) The King and Queen are visiting dignitaries. It is not clear what the logical form of this statement is. Either there are dignitaries that the King and Queen are visiting, in which case the sentence (3) has the same logical form as "The King and Queen are playing violins," or the King and Queen are themselves the dignitaries who are visiting from somewhere else, in which case the sentence has the same logical form as "The King and Queen are sniveling cowards." Depending on which logical form the statement has, inferences may be valid or invalid. Consider: The King and Queen are visiting dignitaries. Visiting dignitaries is always boring. Therefore, the King and Queen are doing something boring. Only if the statement is given the first reading can this argument be considered to be valid. Because of the difficulty in identifying the logical form of an argument, and the potential deviation of logical form from grammatical form in ordinary language, contemporary logicians typically make use of artificial logical languages in which logical form and grammatical form coincide. In these artificial languages, certain symbols, similar to those used in mathematics, are used to represent those elements of form analogous to ordinary English words such as "all", "not", "or", "and", and so forth. The use of an artificially constructed language makes it easier to specify a set of rules that determine whether or not a given argument is valid or invalid. Hence, the study of which deductive argument forms are valid and which are invalid is often called "formal logic" or "symbolic logic." In short, a deductive argument must be evaluated in two ways. First, one must ask if the premises provide support for the conclusion by examing the form of the argument. If they do, then the argument is valid. Then, one must ask whether the premises are true or false in actuality. Only if an argument passes both these tests is it sound. However, if an argument does not pass these tests, its conclusion may still be true, despite that no support for its truth is given by the argument. Note: there are other, related, uses of these words that are found within more advanced mathematical logic. In that context, a formula (on its own) written in a logical language is said to be valid if it comes out as true (or "satisfied") under all admissible or standard assignments of meaning to that formula within the intended semantics for the logical language. Moreover, an axiomatic logical calculus (in its entirety) is said to be sound if and only if all theorems derivable from the axioms of the logical calculus are semantically valid in the sense just described. For a more sophisticated look at the nature of logical validity, see the articles on "Logical Consequence" in this encyclopedia. The articles on "Argument" and "Deductive and Inductive Arguments" in this encyclopedia may also be helpful. Author Information The author of this article is anonymous. The IEP is actively seeking an author who will write a replacement article.

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