WGU D265 - WGU - CRITICAL THINKING
- REASON AND EVIDENCE ALREADY
ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
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
Inference - ANSWER-Argument
Argument - ANSWER-Any purportedly rational movement from evidence or premises to
a conclusion.
Deductive Inferences - ANSWER-Arguments where the premises guarantee or
necessitate the conclusion.
Inductive Inferences - ANSWER-Arguments where the premises make the conclusion
probable, at best.
Abductive Inference - ANSWER-Arguments where the best available explanation is
chosen as the correct explanation.
Truth - ANSWER-A property of propositions--not arguments.
Valid - ANSWER-A property of an argument structure. If both premises are true, the
conclusion is true. Only applies to deductive arguments.
Sound - ANSWER-A valid argument with true premises. Only applies to deductive
arguments.
Unsound - ANSWER-Argument is invalid or has at least one false premise. Only applies
to deductive arguments.
- REASON AND EVIDENCE ALREADY
ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
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
Inference - ANSWER-Argument
Argument - ANSWER-Any purportedly rational movement from evidence or premises to
a conclusion.
Deductive Inferences - ANSWER-Arguments where the premises guarantee or
necessitate the conclusion.
Inductive Inferences - ANSWER-Arguments where the premises make the conclusion
probable, at best.
Abductive Inference - ANSWER-Arguments where the best available explanation is
chosen as the correct explanation.
Truth - ANSWER-A property of propositions--not arguments.
Valid - ANSWER-A property of an argument structure. If both premises are true, the
conclusion is true. Only applies to deductive arguments.
Sound - ANSWER-A valid argument with true premises. Only applies to deductive
arguments.
Unsound - ANSWER-Argument is invalid or has at least one false premise. Only applies
to deductive arguments.
