deductive or inductive? help!? A. Please put the following argument into standard argument form (premise, premise, conclusion form) and then critically assess it (writing a brief essay on whether your reconstruction is sound or cogent or not [that is, whether it has good inductive or deductive logic and whether it has all true premises and why you think so]):
“Look, Socrates, I now think that if piety is what all the gods love, then an action is
pious because they all love it. Next, if an action is pious because they all love it, then
the gods must agree all the time about things that we thought they disagreed about (since there are so many clearly pious actions). But we know the gods are always
fighting about almost everything, and so that consequent can’t be true. I guess that
means that piety is not what all the gods love!”
Can someone please help me explain this
“Look, Socrates, I now think that if piety is what all the gods love, then an action is
pious because they all love it. Next, if an action is pious because they all love it, then
the gods must agree all the time about things that we thought they disagreed about (since there are so many clearly pious actions). But we know the gods are always
fighting about almost everything, and so that consequent can’t be true. I guess that
means that piety is not what all the gods love!”
Can someone please help me explain this