this is for you philososphy majors
2007-01-03 13:33:14 · 3 answers · asked by V8 Babe 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
deuctive reasoning and inductive reasoning are not affected by the truth the statement holds
anything can be deduced or induced from any sentence, that's reasoning, whether or not it is false or true is all relative to the original statement
2007-01-04 03:07:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps you mean a proposition; 'sentence' is a linguistic term. A proposition can be validly deduced from false propositions. This means that if all of the propositions are true, then the proposition resulting from the deduction can't be false. Even if all propositions are false one can still validly deduce another proposition. The problem, then, is ensuring that the propositions acting as premises are true. If you are interested in this topic read L. BonJour's 'Structure of Empirical Knowledge' or D. Davidson's 'A Coherence Theory of Truth.'
2007-01-03 23:55:58 · answer #2 · answered by justsomeguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this question makes no sense... true?
2007-01-03 21:47:40 · answer #3 · answered by mali 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋