critical thinking involves ______ - Answer-rational evaluation
(T/F) Experienced philosophers or other specialists in their fields never make mistakes in reasonings -
Answer-False
what types of arguments should you avoid? - Answer-weak, invalid and irrelevant
(T/F) critical thinking should incl...
CHP Exam 1 critical thinking involves ______ - Answer -rational evaluation (T/F) Experienced philosophers or other specialists in their fields never make mistakes in reasonings - Answer -False what types of arguments should you avoid? - Answer -weak, invalid and irrelevant (T/F) critical thinking should include biases or emotions - Answer -false what are the ultimate objectives of thinking critically? - Answer -to make wise decisions to come to correct conclusions (T/F) A belief can be expressed in a sentence that is either true or false - Answer -true what is the result of expressing a belief, judgment, or opinion in a declarative sentence? - Answer -a claim (T/F) "Apple pie taste better than banana pudding" is an objective claim - Answer -false (T/F) Neil Armstrong was America's greatest hero" is a subjective claim - Answer -true (T/F) statements can never contain both objective and non -objective elements - Answer -false in this text, is an opinion the same as a belief? - Answer -yes the method used to come to correct conclusions is to evaluate our thinking by standards of _______. - Answer -rationality (T/F) whether an objective claim is true or false depends on whether people think it is true or false - Answer -false the tendency to weight negative evidence more heavily than positive evidence is called __________ bias - Answer -negativity an ________ presents a consideration for accepting a claim - Answer -argument the _________ heuristic involves unconsciously assigning a probability to a type of event based on how often on think of events of that type - Answer -availability ________ is the idea that if a person thinks something is morally wrong, then it is morally wrong for that person and he/she does not need to consider any further truth - Answer -moral subjectivism is Allysa older than Malik? does this question raise an issue? - Answer -yes which of the following question qualify as something one could not begin to settle? "is everything really one?" "is there an identical you in a different dimension?" "who invented the light bulb?" "do gamma rays exist?" - Answer -"is everything really one?" "is there an identical you in a different dimension?" the two parts of an argument are ________. - Answer -premise and conclusion the part of an argument that provides a reason for accepting the other part is called the ____________. - Answer -premise the tendency to evaluate reasoning by the believability of its conclusion is called ___________. - Answer -belief bias a tendency to have higher opinions of people within our social circle than of people outside it, is known as? - Answer -in-group bias
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