steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
An argument can be valid and unsound. Semantics again, what is unsound?
Given evidence different people can make different conclusions from the evidence. Each argument may be valid in from. It happens all the time in group situations.
Given the same evidence one argument could be called more sound than another. Unsound is a subjective term.
In form a syllogism is either true or false, valid or invalid. No fallacies or contradictions or errors in form and the argument is valid.
Sound or unsound refers to choice of premise. Given evidence different people may come up with different premises. Logic in syllogism may mot violate rules, but be unsound. A valid syllogism in no way proves the conclusion in reality.
Which comes down to the fact that syllogisms while called logic are subjective. Application of valid logic may lead to unsound results. Reasoning based on logic does not guarentee the conclusion pans out in reality.
Given evidence different people can make different conclusions from the evidence. Each argument may be valid in from. It happens all the time in group situations.
Given the same evidence one argument could be called more sound than another. Unsound is a subjective term.
In form a syllogism is either true or false, valid or invalid. No fallacies or contradictions or errors in form and the argument is valid.
Sound or unsound refers to choice of premise. Given evidence different people may come up with different premises. Logic in syllogism may mot violate rules, but be unsound. A valid syllogism in no way proves the conclusion in reality.
Which comes down to the fact that syllogisms while called logic are subjective. Application of valid logic may lead to unsound results. Reasoning based on logic does not guarentee the conclusion pans out in reality.