Definition:Valid Argument/Linguistic Warning

Linguistic Warning on Valid Argument

In natural language, especially when a person is attempting to sound more learned than they are, it is commonplace to discuss the nature of statements as being valid or invalid.

What is really meant, of course, is that a statement is either true or false.

Sources

• 1980: D.J. O'Connor and Betty Powell: Elementary Logic ... (previous) ... (next): $\S \text{I}: 1$: The Logic of Statements $(1)$