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B&K ch 4 (logic: probability and inductive reasoning)

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1inductively forcefulwhen the truth of the premises would not ENSURE the truth of the conclusion, but they provide good reason to EXPECT the conclusion to be true rather than false
2can you say that an argument is more inductively forceful than another?yes. arguments can range from being deductively valid to a complete lack of inductive force.
3inductively sound (aka cogency)when the argument is inductively forceful and the premises are actually true
4deductive inferencefrom general to specific
5inductive inferenceto conclude, on the basis that a certain proportion of a sample of a population possesses a certain feature, that the same proportion of the whole population possesses that feature.
generalising the conclusion, in hopes that the sample is representative of the population. from specific to general.
6extrapolationto guess or to think about what might happen using information that's already known
7can an inductive argument be converted into a deductive one?yes, simply by making explicit the basis for the inductive principle in a connecting premise.
example:
P1) all of the observed sample of jackdaws are monogamous.
(P2) if all of the observed sample of jackdaws are monogamous, then all jackdaws are monogamous)
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C) all jackdaws are monogamous.
8if you have to choose, is it better to sacrifice validity or soundness?validity. soundness is more useful in practice.

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