WGU D265 TERMS EXAM QUESTIONS
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Critical Thinking - correct answer ✔✔the ability to think carefully about thinking and reasoning
—to criticize your own reasoning.
Propositions - correct answer ✔✔statements that can be true or false
Simple Proposition - correct answer ✔✔have no internal logical structure, meaning whether
they are true or false does not depend on whether a part of them is true or false The sky is blue.
Complex Proposition - correct answer ✔✔have internal logical structure, meaning they are
composed of simple propositions. The sky is blue, but it does not look blue to me right now.
Bad Inferential Structure - correct answer ✔✔premises do not demonstrate or support
conclusions, premises are true without being compelled to accept the conclusion
False Premise - correct answer ✔✔premise is false
Conclusion Indicators - correct answer ✔✔Have the general sense of "I have told you some
things, now here is what I want you to believe". Therefore, so, it follows that, hence, thus,
entails that, we may conclude that, implies that, wherefore, as a result
Premise Indicators - correct answer ✔✔"from this fact I am going to infer something else
Because, for, given that, in that, as, since, as indicated by
, Argument - correct answer ✔✔any purportedly rational movement from evidence or premises
to a conclusion. I believe x because of y, z, and w.
Deductive - correct answer ✔✔the premises provide conclusive support for the conclusion - if
they guarantee the conclusion or make the conclusion certain.
Induction - correct answer ✔✔arguments where the premises make the conclusion probable
Abduction - correct answer ✔✔arguments where the best available explanation is chosen as
the correct explanation
Soundness - correct answer ✔✔both about structure and truth. Must have good structure and
true premises.
Truth - correct answer ✔✔proposition makes a statement about that world and the world
either is or is not the way the proposition describes it to be.
Validity - correct answer ✔✔property of an argument structure, "this structure is such that if
the premises of any argument are true, then the conclusion must be true.
Cogent - correct answer ✔✔all true premises, and the premises give strong inductive support
for the conclusion.
Strength - correct answer ✔✔in the inductive argument, true premises make the conclusion
probably true.
Formal - correct answer ✔✔refers to the structure of things
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Critical Thinking - correct answer ✔✔the ability to think carefully about thinking and reasoning
—to criticize your own reasoning.
Propositions - correct answer ✔✔statements that can be true or false
Simple Proposition - correct answer ✔✔have no internal logical structure, meaning whether
they are true or false does not depend on whether a part of them is true or false The sky is blue.
Complex Proposition - correct answer ✔✔have internal logical structure, meaning they are
composed of simple propositions. The sky is blue, but it does not look blue to me right now.
Bad Inferential Structure - correct answer ✔✔premises do not demonstrate or support
conclusions, premises are true without being compelled to accept the conclusion
False Premise - correct answer ✔✔premise is false
Conclusion Indicators - correct answer ✔✔Have the general sense of "I have told you some
things, now here is what I want you to believe". Therefore, so, it follows that, hence, thus,
entails that, we may conclude that, implies that, wherefore, as a result
Premise Indicators - correct answer ✔✔"from this fact I am going to infer something else
Because, for, given that, in that, as, since, as indicated by
, Argument - correct answer ✔✔any purportedly rational movement from evidence or premises
to a conclusion. I believe x because of y, z, and w.
Deductive - correct answer ✔✔the premises provide conclusive support for the conclusion - if
they guarantee the conclusion or make the conclusion certain.
Induction - correct answer ✔✔arguments where the premises make the conclusion probable
Abduction - correct answer ✔✔arguments where the best available explanation is chosen as
the correct explanation
Soundness - correct answer ✔✔both about structure and truth. Must have good structure and
true premises.
Truth - correct answer ✔✔proposition makes a statement about that world and the world
either is or is not the way the proposition describes it to be.
Validity - correct answer ✔✔property of an argument structure, "this structure is such that if
the premises of any argument are true, then the conclusion must be true.
Cogent - correct answer ✔✔all true premises, and the premises give strong inductive support
for the conclusion.
Strength - correct answer ✔✔in the inductive argument, true premises make the conclusion
probably true.
Formal - correct answer ✔✔refers to the structure of things
