Suppose a premise of a valid deductive argument were false.What can you conclude about the conclusion of this argument?
A) The conclusion is true.
B) The conclusion is false.
C) The conclusion is valid.
D) None of these answers is correct.

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A deductively valid argument is such that if all its premises are true, then its conclusion must be true as well. In logic, only arguments are described as valid or invalid. Conclusions are either true or false, but they are never valid or invalid. In this particular case, we cannot draw any conclusion about the truth of the conclusion from the fact that one premise is false. If all of the premises had been true, we could have concluded that the conclusion was true as well (since the argument is valid). But since one premise is false, we do not have enough information to draw any conclusion at all.

Suppose a Premise of a Valid Deductive Argument Were False