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Cogent 1100 Words You Need Week 26 Day 4

Cogent 1100 Words You Need Cogent 1100 Words You Need Week 26 Day 4 /ˈkəʊ.dʒənt/ (adj) convincing, clearly expressed and persuasive, influential, forceful, rationally persuasive, lucid, logical, coherent, sound Validity and strength of arguments do not on their own tell us whether arguments are good or bad. We’ve actually seen rubbish arguments that were valid. That’s why we need to introduce two further concepts for arguments: being sound and being cogent. A cogent argument is a strong non-deductive argument that has true premises. And again, we say that cogent arguments are good. A cogent argument is by definition non-deductive, which ...

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