VERIFIED ANSWERS
False - CORRECT ANSWER Critical thinking is the art of thinking and acting with
clarity in pursuit of our goals.
- CORRECT ANSWER The standard form categorical claims are All S are P, All S are
not P, Some S are P, and Some S are not P.
subject - CORRECT ANSWER Using the Rules Method, what is distributed in an A-
claim?
false - CORRECT ANSWER A disjunction is the claim 'A and B'.
false - CORRECT ANSWER Therefore is an example of a premise indicator.
false - CORRECT ANSWER The claim "I either have chalk in this hand, or that hand"
is called a disjunctive syllogism.
affirming the consequent. - CORRECT ANSWER AàB
BA is the argument form called
- CORRECT ANSWER He had to either go to the left or to the right. He didn't go
right, so he went left. What argument form is this?
,after diagramming the premises, the conclusion is there. - CORRECT ANSWER In a
Venn diagram, the argument is valid if
- CORRECT ANSWER If the rebounder can get the outlet pass out quickly enough,
then they get a fast break going. If they get the fast break going, then they'll often
get an easy lay-up for a score. So, if the rebounder can get the outlet pass out
quickly enough, then they'll often get an easy score. What argument form is this?
?can't both be true. - CORRECT ANSWER The rule of contraries is
disjunctive syllogismNOT
denying the antecedent? - CORRECT ANSWER AvB
A~B is the argument form called
affirming the consequent NOT
modus ponens? - CORRECT ANSWER The professor told Leo "If you want to earn
10 extra credit points, then email me an introduction of yourself with a picture."
Leo got the extra credit points, so he must have turned the assignment in. What
argument form is this?
Disjunctive syllogism? - CORRECT ANSWER AvB~BA is the argument form called
NOT disjunction
conjunction? - CORRECT ANSWER Based on these four rows alone without
identifying labels at the top, what truth table is this?
TT
,TF
FT
FF
hypothetical syllogism - CORRECT ANSWER AàBBàCAàC is the argument form
called
NOT affirming the consequent
modus ponens? - CORRECT ANSWER The professor told Leo "If you want to earn
10 extra credit points, then email me an introduction of yourself with a picture."
Leo got the extra credit points, so he must have turned the assignment in. What
argument form is this?
if the premises are true, the conclusion is, at best, probably true - CORRECT
ANSWER An inductive argument is one where
persuade - CORRECT ANSWER The purpose of an argument is to
negation? - CORRECT ANSWER FT
Based on these two rows alone without identifying labels at the top, what truth
table
owl - CORRECT ANSWER In the Roman culture, the ______ became a symbol of
wisdom.
, true - CORRECT ANSWER The term "science" comes from the Latin word scientia.
false - CORRECT ANSWER Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein partly out of her
concern that people with moral concerns would prevent the rapid development of
technology.
true - CORRECT ANSWER One of the pressing issues of our technological age is
whether our technological knowledge and capacity has grown more rapidly than
our wisdom to use that knowledge in the right way.
none of the above - CORRECT ANSWER Science _____
false - CORRECT ANSWER Science is concerned with both what is the case in the
physical world and what ought to be the case.
all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER Philosophy is _____.
false - CORRECT ANSWER Scientists pursue knowledge of the non-physical world
through reasoning about what has been observed in the mind.
the art of reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER Logic is _____.
sciences - CORRECT ANSWER Philosophy is the mother of all the