(August 29, 2012 at 2:07 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Yes, the conclusion can be true even if the premise is false. I presume in your example that Barack Obama is somewhere n the USA, but not in Washington DC. So your premise can be false and your conclusion true...by coincidence.
QED.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”