What is your answer?

    All logicians are millionaires.
    Gensler is a logician.
    So Gensler is a millionaire.

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1 is correct!

    All logicians are millionaires.
    Gensler is a logician.
    So Gensler is a millionaire.

This argument is VALID -- because this just means that the conclusion follows from the premises. Calling an argument "valid" doesn't say whether its premises are true.

Here the first premise is false -- and so the argument doesn't prove its conclusion.

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2 is wrong. Please try again.

    All logicians are millionaires.
    Gensler is a logician.
    So Gensler is a millionaire.
    { 1 } - Valid
    { 2 } - Invalid

This argument is VALID -- because this just means that the conclusion follows from the premises. Calling an argument "valid" doesn't say whether its premises are true.

Here the first premise is false -- and so the argument doesn't prove its conclusion.

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