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In logic, a property of inferences or arguments which are valid if the conclusion follows necessarily (by deduction) from the premises, as in a syllogism. The premises may be false, but if they are true the conclusion must be true.



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Catuneanu has covered the ground in excruciating detail, more than most people could comfortably absorb, but provided less guideline information on the real threads of logical truth that matter, or on the realistic application in the less-than-ideal real world most geologists toil in.
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Campbell did understand that while myths have poetical truth, the kind of truth all made-up stories have, they do not have the factual and logical truth to be found in historical narratives and in bodies of scientific knowledge.
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