Important Terms

Question 1

Deductive argument

Answer 1

An argument intended to provide logically necessary support for its conclusion

Question 2

Deductively valid argument

Answer 2

An argument in which the premises necessitate the conclusion.

Question 3

Inductive argument

Answer 3

Argument intended to provide logically probable support for its conclusion.

Question 4

Normative statements

Answer 4

Prescribe what ‘ought to be’

Question 5

Descriptive statements

Answer 5

How things are