The concept of persuasiveness, when applied to inductive arguments (in Chapter 6) means what?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Sometimes deductively valid arguments are less persuasive than inductive arguments because one is not likely to accept their strong premises unless one already accepts their conclusions.

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