A Good Argument Analysis

A good argument has to fulfill the Logic Condition. There are two significantly different ways for an argument to satisfy the Logic Condition, which are if the argument is valid and if the argument is strong. An argument is valid if it has the following the conditional property such as if all the premises are true, then the conclusion cannot be false.

An example of valid argument:

1. All ladies are teachers.

2. Suzy is a lady.

Therefore, Suzy is a teacher.

From the example given above, we know that the first premise is false because not all ladies are teachers. However, the argument is still considered valid. It is because if the premises were true, it would be impossible for the conclusion to be false.

In other words, in a hypothetical

However, an invalid argument can be classified into strong and weak. A strong argument is an argument that usually can be supported by facts and reasoning. The premises of a strong argument usually are plausible and relevant to the conclusion. It is rarely happens that the premise is true but the conclusion is false. For a strong argument, it gives us some pretty good reasons to believe the

Every weak argument is bad because an argument that contains false premises is never considered a good one. The premise and the conclusion of a weak argument are usually not related. Moreover, a weak argument does not give us any information about the conclusion whether it is true or false. Therefore, we have no reason to believe or disbelieve the conclusion that we previously had when we are encountering a weak argument.

Here are some examples for strong argument and weak argument.

Example 1

All of the Year 3 students from SJKC Min Hui visited the museum last Saturday.

Lily is a Year 3 students from SJKC Min Hui.

Therefore , she visited the museum last Saturday.

This is a strong argument because the conclusion is proven by the premise.

Example 2

Johan is a teacher.

Therefore, Johan doesn’t swim.

This is a weak argument because it does not prove the conclusion is true or false and the premise is unrelated to the conclusion. In conclusion, a strong argument is more credible than a weak argument. In most of the situations, a strong argument is more preferred than a weak