Question

(1) What is the difference between cogency and strength in an inductive argument? My Answer:

(2) What is a weak inductive argument? What is the analogue of weakness in deductive augments? My Answer:

(3) What is the deductive analogue of inductive strength, and how does it differ from the deductive analogue My Answer:

Answer 1

1. In the Inductive argument the premises are true and therefore the conclusion is true. In most of the cases it appears.

2. At the same time it is also true that in the inductive argument it may be incomplete and sometimes the conclusion may be invalid though there is accurate observation.

The deductive argument may be valid in spite of the impossible premises. All the time the premises do not lead to the logical conclusion.

3. In the deductive analogue of the inductive sense it is found that the premises appear to be true and the premises logically lead to the true conclusion. Here the argument appears to be true and valid. It may be true or false. But the argument is true.

Similarly in the deductive argument we find the premises where the logical advancement leads to the conclusion.