validjustifying
Validjustifying is a term used in logic and critical thinking to describe the practice of producing premises that validly support a given conclusion. In this sense, the focus is on the structural relation between premises and conclusion: if the premises are true and the reasoning is properly formed, the conclusion necessarily follows. The term separates the issue of logical validity from the truth of the premises themselves, which may be contingent or contested.
Historically, valid in logic refers to a deductive relationship where the conclusion follows from the premises
Applications include teaching formal reasoning, evaluating argumentative essays, and designing artificial intelligence systems that perform deductive
Relationship to related concepts: validity concerns the entailment relation, while soundness adds actual truth of premises;
See also logic, argument, validity, soundness, inference, epistemology.