Under which of the conditions an argument may be valid? Select the correct answer from the code given below: Statements: a) When its conclusion and premises are true. b) Even when its conclusion and one or more of its premises are false. c) Only when its conclusion is true.

Under which of the conditions an argument may be valid? Select the correct answer from the code given below: Statements: a) When its conclusion and premises are true. b) Even when its conclusion and one or more of its premises are false. c) Only when its conclusion is true. Correct Answer a and b

1. Validity is nothing but a good Deductive Form which in turn depends upon the interrelationship between premises and conclusions.
2. Validity (in the technical sense just defined) applies only to arguments, never to individual claims. It is completely determined by an argument’s structure, not its content.  If some argument is valid, then every argument with the same structure is also valid. The premises are intended to provide conclusive reasons or proof of the conclusion.
3. It is important to stress that the premises of an argument do not have actually to be true in order for the argument to be valid. An argument is valid if the premises and conclusion are related to each other in the right way so that if the premises were true, then the conclusion would have to be true as well. Hence, even if one of the premises is actually false, that if they had been true the conclusion would have been true as well.

Hence, an argument is valid if its conclusion and premises are true or Even when its conclusion and one or more of its premises are false.