The most important concepts to understand in Formal Logic is the concept of validity. All logic students should memorize and come to understand these three different (but related) ways of defining validity:

1. In a valid argument, the premises imply the conclusion
2. In a valid argument, if the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true.
3. If an argument has true premises and a false conclusion, then it is invalid.

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