D265 Critical Thinking Exam Review 1
Exam Questions and answers GRADED
A
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
, D265 Critical Thinking Exam Review 1
Exam Questions and answers GRADED
A
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!
Exam Questions and answers GRADED
A
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
, D265 Critical Thinking Exam Review 1
Exam Questions and answers GRADED
A
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!
