PHIL 201 - Midterm Exam Questions with
complete solution updated 2025
What is Critical Thinking? - correct answer ✔Contemplating the
"norm"/"norms"
Evaluate the pros/cons before making a decision
Being skeptically minded-Proceeding with caution
Think(ing) / Thought - correct answer ✔The process of using one's mind to
consider or think about something.
A person's idea.
Critical - correct answer ✔Expressing adverse or disapproving comments or
judgments.
Expressing or involving an analysis of the merits and faults of a work of
literature, music, art, etc...
Logic is about clear and effective thinking.
- D. Q. - correct answer ✔- Logic as in life, it is the obvious that most often
bears emphasizing, because it so easily escapes our notice.
- This is neither a treatise in logical theory nor a textbook in logic.
- Being logical seeks to produce practitioners, not theoreticians. People for
whom knowing the principles of logic is in the service of being logical.
Subjective Evaluations - correct answer ✔- Matters of opinions.
- The focus is on the one doing the evaluating.
- Change and vary from person to person (Movies, taste,style).
, Objective Evaluations - correct answer ✔- Based on facts/unbiased.
- Standard of measurement.
- Tendency toward generalized agreement (Ex: Math / science).
Preparing the Mind for Logic (Part One) - correct answer ✔- For logic and
language are inseparable.
- For logic is about truth.
- For logic is about society.
1) Be Attentive - correct answer ✔- We need to pay sufficient attention.
- Every situation is unique, we must be alert to its uniqueness.
2) Get the Facts Straight - correct answer ✔- Subjective or Objective.
- Direct or Indirect.
3) The Idea and the Object of Ideas - correct answer ✔-Traceable to things
actually existing in the world.
4) Be Mindful of the Origins of Ideas - correct answer ✔- Where do out ideas
come from?
- Our ideas aren't 100% our own.
5) Match Ideas to Facts - correct answer ✔- Link our ideas to an objective
fact.
6) Match Words to Ideas - correct answer ✔-Communication.
complete solution updated 2025
What is Critical Thinking? - correct answer ✔Contemplating the
"norm"/"norms"
Evaluate the pros/cons before making a decision
Being skeptically minded-Proceeding with caution
Think(ing) / Thought - correct answer ✔The process of using one's mind to
consider or think about something.
A person's idea.
Critical - correct answer ✔Expressing adverse or disapproving comments or
judgments.
Expressing or involving an analysis of the merits and faults of a work of
literature, music, art, etc...
Logic is about clear and effective thinking.
- D. Q. - correct answer ✔- Logic as in life, it is the obvious that most often
bears emphasizing, because it so easily escapes our notice.
- This is neither a treatise in logical theory nor a textbook in logic.
- Being logical seeks to produce practitioners, not theoreticians. People for
whom knowing the principles of logic is in the service of being logical.
Subjective Evaluations - correct answer ✔- Matters of opinions.
- The focus is on the one doing the evaluating.
- Change and vary from person to person (Movies, taste,style).
, Objective Evaluations - correct answer ✔- Based on facts/unbiased.
- Standard of measurement.
- Tendency toward generalized agreement (Ex: Math / science).
Preparing the Mind for Logic (Part One) - correct answer ✔- For logic and
language are inseparable.
- For logic is about truth.
- For logic is about society.
1) Be Attentive - correct answer ✔- We need to pay sufficient attention.
- Every situation is unique, we must be alert to its uniqueness.
2) Get the Facts Straight - correct answer ✔- Subjective or Objective.
- Direct or Indirect.
3) The Idea and the Object of Ideas - correct answer ✔-Traceable to things
actually existing in the world.
4) Be Mindful of the Origins of Ideas - correct answer ✔- Where do out ideas
come from?
- Our ideas aren't 100% our own.
5) Match Ideas to Facts - correct answer ✔- Link our ideas to an objective
fact.
6) Match Words to Ideas - correct answer ✔-Communication.
