Critical Thinking: Reason and Evidence Correct Questions & Answers(RATED A)

Critical Thinking: Reason and Evidence Correct Questions & Answers(RATED A) Critical Thinking - ANSWER The ability to think carefully about thinking and reasoning--to criticize your own reasoning. Critical - ANSWER Reflective, careful, or attentive to potential errors. Critical Thinking - ANSWER Being curious and thinking creatively; Being billing to go the next step and think about all of the possible positions and arguments before settling into a position. Critical Thinking - ANSWER Separating the thinking from the position; Removing personal opinion from the discussion and not making it personal against the other person. Critical Thinking - ANSWER Knowing oneself enough to avoid biases and errors of thought; being thoughtful and aware of personal biases and working against them to challenge thinking. Critical Thinking - ANSWER Understanding arguments ,reasons, and evidence; thinking carefully about thinking, about arguments, and positions. Propositions - ANSWER Statements that can be true or false. Non-Proposition Sentences - ANSWER Sentences that cannot be true or false; cannot disagree with them; cannot argue whether they're right or wrong; cannot question them. Simple Propositions - ANSWER Proposition with no internal logical structure, meaning whether they are true or false does not depend on whether a part of them are true or false. They simply are true or false on their own. Complex Propositions - ANSWER Propositions with an internal logical structure, meaning they are composed of simple propositions. Common Anatomy of an Argument - ANSWER One or more premises that are propositions that support or demonstrate at least one conclusion. Premise - ANSWER Propositions/statements that support or demonstrate the conclusion. Conclusion - ANSWER The point being made and offered for acceptance or rejection as the basis of an argument. Bad Inferential Structure - ANSWER The argument's premises do not demonstrate or support the conclusion. We can accept the premises as true without being compelled to accept the conclusion. False Premise - ANSWER The premises in an argument are false. Argument - ANSWER A set of statements where the premises attempt to provide a reason for thinking that the conclusion is true. Conclusion Indicators - ANSWER Therefore, Hence, We may conclude that, So, Thus, Implies that, It follows that, Entails that, As a result Premise Indicators - ANSWER Because, In that, As indicated by, Given that, Since, For, As In