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Popper argued instead that hypotheses are deductively validated by what he called the "falsifiability criterion".
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What is it for an argument to be deductively valid?
An inference rule is said to be valid, or deductively valid, if it is necessarily truth-preserving.
In this simple form, this is a deductively valid argument.
Epistemologists typically concentrate on transmission of (propositional or doxastic) justification across deductively valid arguments (or arguments deductively valid given background information).
As it stands, this argument is deductively valid.[2] (Here is a proof).
Reasoning is defeasible when the corresponding argument is rationally compelling but not deductively valid.
is not deductively valid because the premises are not necessarily sufficient for the conclusion.
So understood, the argument can be seen as a deductively valid inference.
The first inference (dashed arrow) is inductive; the second and third (solid arrows) are deductively valid.
A constraint of apriority certainly seems to rule argument (3) out as deductively valid, and rightly so.
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