Questions and CORRECT Answers
Statement or Nonstatement?
I'm so jealous of Fred! - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Statement
Statement or Nonstatement?
2 + 2 = 5 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Statement
Statement or Nonstatement?
Would you like fries with that? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Nonstatement
Statement or Nonstatement?
God created the Earth in 6 days. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Statement
Statement or Nonstatement?
I wouldn't ride without a helmet if I were you. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Statement
True or False?
A person is guilty of practical inconsistency when he or she asserts or believes inconsistent
things about a particular matter. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
True or False?
,Self-interested thinking is the tendency to accept and defend beliefs that harmonize with one's
own self-interest. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
True or False?
Self-serving bias is the tendency to overrate oneself--to see oneself as being better in some
respect than one actually is. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
True or False?
Conformism is the tendency to see one's own group (e.g., nation, tribe, sect, peer group) as
being inherently better than others. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
True or False?
Every argument consists of at least two statements. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
True or False?
Inductive arguments always proceed from particular premises to a general conclusion. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
True or False?
Certainly, conclusively, and it logically follows that are common deduction indicator words
and phrases. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
True or False?
If an arguer precedes his or her conclusion with the phrase "it must be the case that," then the
argument is definitely deductive. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
, True or False?
According to the strict necessity test, if an argument's conclusion follows with strict logical
necessity from the premises, then the argument should always be treated as deductive. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
True or False?
According to the principle of charity test, we should never attribute to an arguer a weaker
argument when the evidence reasonably permits us to attribute to him or her a stronger one. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
True or False?
A syllogism is a three-line argument in which each premise begins with the words all, some,
or no. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
True or False?
Modus tollens is a deductively valid pattern of reasoning. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
True or False?
Affirming the consequent is a deductively valid pattern of reasoning. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- False
True or False?
Arguments based on mathematics are always deductive. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
True or False?