Sound vs. Valid: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 25, 2023
"Sound" often refers to being based on reason, judgment, or good sense, while "Valid" means having a sound basis in logic or fact; legally acceptable.
Key Differences
Foundations in Reason and Logic: Sound decisions or arguments are those based on solid reasoning or good judgment. Valid, on the other hand, refers to arguments or claims that are logically sound and factually accurate.
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Sound is frequently used in contexts involving judgment, wisdom, or health, implying reliability and sturdiness. Valid is used more in legal, logical, and empirical contexts, indicating legitimacy or factual correctness.
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Sound often carries a connotation of thoroughness and reliability, while valid implies correctness and accordance with established rules or facts.
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A sound argument is viewed as well-reasoned and sensible, while a valid argument is one that is logically consistent and factually supported.
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Sound can be used in a broader range of contexts, including physical health and structural integrity, whereas valid is more specific to logical, legal, and factual correctness.
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Comparison Chart
Definition
Based on reason, judgment, or good sense.
Having a sound basis in logic or fact; legally acceptable.
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Usage Contexts
Judgment, wisdom, health, reliability.
Legal, logical, empirical correctness.
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Connotation
Reliability, thoroughness, sensibility.
Correctness, accordance with rules or facts.
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Perception
Viewed as well-reasoned and sensible.
Seen as logically consistent and factually supported.
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Application
Broad, including health and structural integrity.
Specific to logical, legal, and factual realms.
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Sound and Valid Definitions
Sound
Sound means being in good condition; not damaged, injured, or diseased.
The bridge is structurally sound.
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Valid
Valid refers to being legally or officially acceptable.
The contract is valid and enforceable.
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Sound
Sound may refer to the sensation caused by vibration of air particles, perceived by the ears.
The sound of the ocean waves was soothing.
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Valid
Valid can describe a point, statement, or idea that is justifiable.
His concerns about safety were valid.
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Sound
Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
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Valid
Valid may refer to being applicable or relevant.
The theory is valid for many situations.
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Valid also means still legally or officially acceptable.
The ticket is valid for three months.
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Sound
The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
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The distance over which something can be heard
Within sound of my voice.
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Valid
Containing premises from which the conclusion may logically be derived
A valid argument.
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Sound
The distinctive character of such an articulation
The words bear and bare have the same sound.
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Sound
A mental impression; an implication
Didn't like the sound of the invitation.
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Valid
Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
I will believe him as soon as he offers a valid answer.
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Valid
Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.
A valid format for the date is DD/MM/YY.
Do not drive without a valid license.
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Valid
(logic) Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
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(logic) Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.
An argument is valid if and only if the set consisting of both (1) all of its premises and (2) the contradictory of its conclusion is inconsistent.
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Sound
A long, relatively wide body of water, larger than a strait or a channel, connecting larger bodies of water.
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Valid
Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; capable of being justified, defended, or supported; not weak or defective; sound; good; efficacious; as, a valid argument; a valid objection.
An answer that is open to no valid exception.
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Sound
An instrument used to examine or explore body cavities, as for foreign bodies or other abnormalities, or to dilate strictures in them.
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Valid
Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.
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Valid
Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force;
A valid inference
A valid argument
A valid contract
A valid license
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Valid
Valid means having a sound basis in logic or fact; well-founded.
Her argument was both persuasive and valid.
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Sound
To make known; celebrate
"Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound" (Alexander Pope).
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Sound
To examine (a body organ or part) by causing to emit sound; auscultate.
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Sound
To measure the depth of (water), especially by means of a weighted line; fathom.
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Sound
To try to learn the attitudes or opinions of
Sounded out her feelings.
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Sound
Free from defect, decay, or damage; in good condition
Is the bridge sound?.
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Sound
Marked by or showing common sense and good judgment; levelheaded
A sound approach to the problem.
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Sound
Based on valid reasoning; having no logical flaws
A sound conclusion.
Sound reasoning.
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Sound
(Logic) Of or relating to an argument in which all the premises are true and the conclusion follows from the premises.
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Sound
Healthy.
He was safe and sound.
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
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Sound
Complete, solid, or secure.
Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
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Sound
Good; acceptable; decent.
How are you? —I'm sound.
That's a sound track you're playing.
See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him.
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Sound
(of sleep) Quiet and deep.
Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.
Her sleep was sound.
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Sound
Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
I found my jacket. — Sound.
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Sound
A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.
Nobody made a sound.
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Sound
(music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra, &.
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Sound
, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
Stay within the sound of my voice.
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Sound
(phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
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Sound
A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
Puget Sound; Owen Sound; Long Island Sound
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Sound
The air bladder of a fish.
Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
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Sound
A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
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Sound
(copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
He sounded good when we last spoke.
That story sounds like a pack of lies!
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Sound
(intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
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Sound
To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction.
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Sound
(transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
Sound the alarm!
He sounds the instrument.
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Sound
(intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
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Sound
To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
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Sound
Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
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Sound
(medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
To sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra
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Sound
The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
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Sound
A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound.
The Sound of Denmark, where ships pay toll.
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Sound
Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture.
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Sound
The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound.
The warlike soundOf trumpets loud and clarions.
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Sound
The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.
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Sound
Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.
Sense and not sound . . . must be the principle.
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Sound
Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.
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Sound
Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; - said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.
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Sound
Firm; strong; safe.
The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams,And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound.
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Sound
Free from error; correct; right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; - said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker.
Do not I know you a favorerOf this new seat? Ye are nor sound.
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Sound
Founded in truth or right; supported by justice; not to be overthrown on refuted; not fallacious; as, sound argument or reasoning; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me.
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Sound
Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land.
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Sound
To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.
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Sound
Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
I was in jest,And by that offer meant to sound your breast.
I've sounded my Numidians man by man.
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Sound
To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion; as, to sound a patient.
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Sound
To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
I sound as a shipman soundeth in the sea with his plummet to know the depth of sea.
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Sound
To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!
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Sound
To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
From you sounded out the word of the Lord.
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Sound
To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention.
Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fearThings that do sound so fair?
Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech.
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Sound
To cause to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn; to sound an alarm.
A bagpipe well could he play and soun[d].
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Sound
To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument.
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Sound
To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley.
The clock sounded the hour of noon.
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Sound
To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.
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Sound
To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.
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Sound
To signify; to import; to denote.
Soun[d]ing alway the increase of his winning.
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Sound
The particular auditory effect produced by a given cause;
The sound of rain on the roof
The beautiful sound of music
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Sound
The subjective sensation of hearing something;
He strained to hear the faint sounds
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Sound
Mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium;
Falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them
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Sound
The audible part of a transmitted signal;
They always raise the audio for commercials
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Sound
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
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Sound
A large ocean inlet or deep bay;
The main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast
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Sound
Exercising or showing good judgment;
Healthy scepticism
A healthy fear of rattlesnakes
The healthy attitude of French laws
Healthy relations between labor and management
An intelligent solution
A sound approach to the problem
Sound advice
No sound explanation for his decision
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Sound
In good condition; free from defect or damage or decay;
A sound timber
The wall is sound
A sound foundation
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Sound
In excellent physical condition;
Good teeth
I still have one good leg
A sound mind in a sound body
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Sound
(of sleep) deep and complete;
A heavy sleep
Fell into a profound sleep
A sound sleeper
Deep wakeless sleep
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Sound
Sound refers to being based on reason, judgment, or good sense.
Her advice was always sound and practical.
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Sound
Sound can describe something that is thorough and reliable.
He conducted a sound analysis of the data.
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Sound
Sound also means being free from flaw, error, or defect.
The theory is sound in its principles.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
What does sound mean in a decision?
It implies the decision is based on good judgment and reason.
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How do I know if a plan is sound?
By assessing its practicality, thoroughness, and reasonableness.
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Is a valid contract always sound?
Legally, yes, but it may not be sound in terms of fairness or ethics.
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Can a valid point be unsound?
Rarely, if it's factually correct but based on flawed reasoning.
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Can a theory be sound but not valid?
Yes, if it's sensible but lacks factual backing.
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How is sound used in engineering?
To denote structural integrity and reliability.
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Does sound apply to physical health?
Yes, indicating good health or condition.
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Does sound have different meanings in different contexts?
Yes, from physical condition to judgment and auditory sensations.
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Can a valid argument be morally unsound?
Yes, if it goes against ethical principles.
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Can laws be sound but not valid?
Yes, if they are sensible but not in legal accordance.
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How do sound investments differ from valid investments?
Sound investments are reliable and sensible, while valid investments are legally or factually appropriate.
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Is sound judgment necessary for valid conclusions?
Generally, as it ensures reasoned and logical decision-making.
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What is a valid method in research?
A method that is logically and empirically justifiable.
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Does a sound structure imply safety?
Yes, indicating it is free from damage or defect.
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Can a ticket be valid but not sound?
Rarely, unless it's legally acceptable but flawed in some other way.
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Is a valid opinion always sound?
Not necessarily; it can be factually correct but poorly reasoned.
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Can a hypothesis be valid but not sound?
Yes, if it's based on correct premises but flawed reasoning.
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