D265 CRITICAL THINKING EXAM
REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS &
CORRECT ANSWERS
Why is it important to think critically? - correct answer ✔✔Individuals can evaluate information
objectively, consider multiple perspectives, and analyze complex situations more effectively
Being curious and thinking creatively - correct answer ✔✔Not believing things are simple and
settled, being willing to go the next step and think about all relevant positions and arguments
before settling into a belief
Separating the thinker from the position - correct answer ✔✔Being able to discuss a position
without attacking or judging the person holding the position, without getting caught up in our
own attachment to a position, and without having our identities wrapped up in a particular
viewpoint or opinion
Having intellectual honesty, humility, and charity - correct answer ✔✔Being honest about what
we know and how we know it. What evidence we have and what questions are not yet settled;
being humble in recognizing the vast number of things we don't yet know or understand and in
recognizing how very difficult it is to truly know anything at all and so recognizing the the
standards are high and we, most of the time, don't meet them (and that's okay); and being
charitable or having the disposition to attribute the best intentions and most sophisticated
positions and arguments that we can imagine to own opponents in arguments
Understanding arguments, reasons, and evidence - correct answer ✔✔Thinking carefully about
thinking, about arguments and positions
Why do you think it is fundamental to understand the definition of propositions? - correct
answer ✔✔Proposition mirrors the world and explains how world is arranged in an orderly
manner
, Propositions - correct answer ✔✔Statements that can be true or false. This is the fundamental
concept
Non-Propositions - correct answer ✔✔Not statements about matters of fact. They do not make
a claim that can be true or false
Exhort - correct answer ✔✔Let's go get dinner! Let's go hiking on Tuesday!
Command - correct answer ✔✔Go to the store later to buy me some cheese. Don't do that.
Plead/Request - correct answer ✔✔Would you please stop that? Please read me a bedtime
story!
Question - correct answer ✔✔What is the capitol of Florida? How much do pineapples cost?
Perform - correct answer ✔✔I hereby adjourn this meeting. I pronounce you husband and wife!
Which Sentence is a Non-Proposition?
- If the burgular did not go out the front door, they must have gone out the window
- The earth is the third planet from the sun
- Where are the keys to my car?
- Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world - correct answer ✔✔Where are the keys to
my car?
Did the company really close that deal? It has had a great year. Where is the president right
now? Let's go ask whether the deal was closed.
REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS &
CORRECT ANSWERS
Why is it important to think critically? - correct answer ✔✔Individuals can evaluate information
objectively, consider multiple perspectives, and analyze complex situations more effectively
Being curious and thinking creatively - correct answer ✔✔Not believing things are simple and
settled, being willing to go the next step and think about all relevant positions and arguments
before settling into a belief
Separating the thinker from the position - correct answer ✔✔Being able to discuss a position
without attacking or judging the person holding the position, without getting caught up in our
own attachment to a position, and without having our identities wrapped up in a particular
viewpoint or opinion
Having intellectual honesty, humility, and charity - correct answer ✔✔Being honest about what
we know and how we know it. What evidence we have and what questions are not yet settled;
being humble in recognizing the vast number of things we don't yet know or understand and in
recognizing how very difficult it is to truly know anything at all and so recognizing the the
standards are high and we, most of the time, don't meet them (and that's okay); and being
charitable or having the disposition to attribute the best intentions and most sophisticated
positions and arguments that we can imagine to own opponents in arguments
Understanding arguments, reasons, and evidence - correct answer ✔✔Thinking carefully about
thinking, about arguments and positions
Why do you think it is fundamental to understand the definition of propositions? - correct
answer ✔✔Proposition mirrors the world and explains how world is arranged in an orderly
manner
, Propositions - correct answer ✔✔Statements that can be true or false. This is the fundamental
concept
Non-Propositions - correct answer ✔✔Not statements about matters of fact. They do not make
a claim that can be true or false
Exhort - correct answer ✔✔Let's go get dinner! Let's go hiking on Tuesday!
Command - correct answer ✔✔Go to the store later to buy me some cheese. Don't do that.
Plead/Request - correct answer ✔✔Would you please stop that? Please read me a bedtime
story!
Question - correct answer ✔✔What is the capitol of Florida? How much do pineapples cost?
Perform - correct answer ✔✔I hereby adjourn this meeting. I pronounce you husband and wife!
Which Sentence is a Non-Proposition?
- If the burgular did not go out the front door, they must have gone out the window
- The earth is the third planet from the sun
- Where are the keys to my car?
- Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world - correct answer ✔✔Where are the keys to
my car?
Did the company really close that deal? It has had a great year. Where is the president right
now? Let's go ask whether the deal was closed.
