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Letters
Letters
Invalid Arguments • Warmly Disagreeing • Women’s Rights • Of Guns and Philosophy • God and Meaning
Invalid Arguments
DEAR EDITOR: I’m delighted to have such intelligent interest paid to my solution to the problem of induction as that of Joel Marks (Letters, Issue 36). And glad to hear, given his paper in Metaphilosophy, that I’m not out there on my own. Strictly speaking an ‘invalid argument’ could be thought of as an oxymoron, but no more than a ‘broken hammer’, or a ‘sunken boat’ is. An invalid argument is a putative argument in that a claim or supposition is being made about the relation of the statements involved, namely that some follow from others. It is supposed to be an argument.
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