DQ1 Three tests

There are three tests that are designed to help you decide if an argument is a good argument or a bad one. The first test is: are the premises plausible? This means that you must see if there is no way for the premises to be true and the conclusion false. The second test is if the premises are more plausible than the conclusion? This means that you must test to see if the premises are more likely than the conclusion itself. The third test is if the argument is valid or strong. I am going to use the example of having a temperature and being sick. Bob has a temperature. People who have temperatures are sick. So Bob is sick. First we must test to see if the premises are plausible. We have good reason to believe that if people have a temperature than they are sick so this claim is plausible. The second test is to see if the premises are more plausible than the conclusion. The conclusion follows the premises perfectly and could not be false if the premises are true. This also proves that the argument is valid which leads us into the third test. The third test is to see if the argument is valid or strong. We have already stated that the argument is valid so the last test is to see if it is a strong argument. There is no way for the conclusion to be false and the premises be true except for some very unlikely and very implausible reasons. This means that the argument is a strong argument.