Depending on breed, management and environment, the domestic horse (including draft horses) today has a life expectancy of 25 to 35 years. It is uncommon, but a few animals live into their 40s and, occasionally, beyond. The oldest verifiable record was Old Billy, a 19th-century horse that lived to the age of 62.
TRUE. Validity is a necessary condition for being sound. 14. FALSE. A valid argument can have a true conclusion and false premises (see #11); and if an argument does not have all true premises, then it is not sound.
Hence the argument is valid. To tell whether an argument is valid, figure out what the form of the argument is, and then try to think of some other argument of that same form and having true premises but a false conclusion. If you succeed, then every argument of that form must be invalid. A valid form of argument can never lead you from true premises to a false conclusion. For instance, consider the argument: 1  If Socrates was a philosopher, then he wasn't a historian.