Equivocation or ambiguity Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Critical Thinking: Reason and Evidence WGU D265 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest Update false dilemma - CORRECT ANSWER ____________ is a logical fallacy that presents only two options or sides when there are many options or sides Equivocation - CORRECT ANSWER ________________ is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word/expression in multiple senses within an argument. It is a type of ambiguity that stems from a phrase having two or more ...

Critical Thinking: Reason and Evidence WGU D265 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest Update false dilemma - CORRECT ANSWER ____________ is a logical fallacy that presents only two options or sides when there are many options or sides Equivocation - CORRECT ANSWER ________________ is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word/expression in multiple senses within an argument. It is a type of ambiguity that stems from a phrase having two or more ...

CMN 3 Midterm Questions and Answers 100% Pass ____________ includes words and noises (random sounds), hand gestures, body movements verbal communication tone of voice and speed of talking are nonverbal ____________ paralanguage ____________ is a system of symbols that we use to think and communicate language ____________ is the meaning of words and meaning within sentences semantics ____________ considers context in which words are used pragmatics we need ____________, ____________, and __...

CMN 3V Midterm 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass The Process of Communication is: Unavoidable, a process, strategic, and irreversible What are the elements of the interactional communication model? Involves a sender (encoder) and a receiver (decoder) as well as the message and feedback Communication Apprehension Fear/anxiety due to real or imagined communication with someone else. What are the solutions to communication apprehension? Systematic desensitization, cognitive restru...

CMN 3 Midterm Prediction Exam Questions. ____________ includes words and noises (random sounds), hand gestures, body movements - correct answer verbal communication tone of voice and speed of talking are nonverbal ____________ - correct answer paralanguage ____________ is a system of symbols that we use to think and communicate - correct answer language ____________ is the meaning of words and meaning within sentences - correct answer semantics ____________ considers con...

WGU C168 Exam Indexical - Correct Answer-words whose meaning is dependant on context Attributes of critical thinker - Correct Answer-Open minded Creative Analytical Affirming the consequent - Correct Answer-Fallacy, if x then y, y therefore x Denying the antecedant - Correct Answer-Fallacy if x then y, not x therefore not y Affirming a disjunct - Correct Answer-Fallacy XvY, X therefore ~Y Denying a conjuct - Correct Answer-Fallacy ~(X&Y) , ~X therefore Y broken chain - Cor...

CMN 3V Midterm 1 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers The Process of Communication is: - answerUnavoidable, a process, strategic, and irreversible What are the elements of the interactional communication model? - answerInvolves a sender (encoder) and a receiver (decoder) as well as the message and feedback Communication Apprehension - answerFear/anxiety due to real or imagined communication with someone else. What are the solutions to communication apprehension? - answerSystematic d...

Indexical - Correct Answer-words whose meaning is dependant on context Attributes of critical thinker - Correct Answer-Open minded Creative Analytical Affirming the consequent - Correct Answer-Fallacy, if x then y, y therefore x Denying the antecedant - Correct Answer-Fallacy if x then y, not x therefore not y Affirming a disjunct - Correct Answer-Fallacy XvY, X therefore ~Y Denying a conjuct - Correct Answer-Fallacy ~(X&Y) , ~X therefore Y broken chain - Correct Answer-falla...

heuristic - correct answer mental shortcut WOB - correct answer Web of beliefs Semantics - correct answer the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning Conjunction Fallacy - correct answer when people think that two events are more likely to occur together than either individual event Occam's Razor - correct answer The philosophy that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one reductio ad ...

Wgu C168 Critical Thinking Exam Questions And Answers 100% Solved Fallacies of Presumption - answerComplex question Begging the question Suppressed evidence False Dichotomy - More choices are possible. Fallacies of Relavance - answerAppeal to emotion Red Herring Straw Person - distorted argument Argument against a person - Indirect Abusive Circumstantial Tu Quoque(you too) Fallacies of Ambiguity - answerAmphiboly - word has more than one meaning. Equivocation - change of meaning i...