Question #2

Well, I was asked to come up with a good example of a strong versus a valid argument, and this is what I was able to come up with at the time.

An everyday example of a strong argument would be that the majority of game consoles fail due to high temperatures. My game console was working fine yesterday, but now it isn’t working. Therefore, my game console failed to due heating issues. This is a strong argument because its premises are plausible; if lots of consoles have this problem then it’s likely that my console has overheated too. But it’s not a valid argument because the console could have failed due to a power surge, the dog peeing on it, etc.

A valid argument using the same premises would be that after my console, which was out of reach of animals and using a surge protector, failed, I checked the external temperature of the console, and found that it exceeded the recommended temperature limits, and smelled like heated plastic.