WGU D265 - WGU - Critical Thinking - Reason and Evidence Already Graded A+

WGU D265 - WGU - Critical Thinking - Reason and Evidence Already Graded A+ Proposition Statement that can be true or false Non-Propositions Not statements about matters of fact. THey do not make a claim that can be true or false. Simple Proposition No internal logical structure. They are true or false on their own. Complex Propositions Have internal logistical structure. THey are composed of simple propositions. Premise Claims, evidence, ideas intended to support the conclusion. Conclusion The claim that the whole argument is intended to support or demonstrate or prove. Premise indicators Because, for, given that, In that, as, since, as indicated by Conclusion indicators Therefore, so, it follows that, hence, thus, entails that, we may conclude that, implies that, wherefore, as a result of Deduction Argument where the premise guarantee or necessitate the conclusion Induction Arguments where the premise make the conclusion probable. Abduction Arguments where the best available explanation is chosen as the correct explanation. Soundness A deductive argument is sound if it has a valid structure and all its premises are true. (If an argument is deductive but has either an invalid structure or at least one false premise, then it is an unsound argument.) Validity In a valid deductive argument the truth of the premises would make the conclusion necessarily true. Strength In a strong inductive argument, the truth of the premises would make the conclusion probably true. Cogency an inductive argument is cogent if the argument is strong and all the premises are true. Formal Fallacy an argument that has an error in reasoning that involves the explicit use of an invalid form Informal Fallacy An error in the content of an argument Antecedent