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D265 CRITICAL THINKING EXAM REVIEWED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED
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D265 CRITICAL THINKING EXAM REVIEWEDQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED 2024 - 2025
Why is it important to think critically? ANS - Individuals can evaluate information objectively, consider
multiple perspectives, and analyze complex situations more effectively
Being curious and thinking creatively ANS - 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 ANS - 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 ANS - 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 ANS - Thinking carefully about thinking, about
arguments and positions
Why do you think it is fundamental to understand the definition of propositions? ANS - Proposition
mirrors the world and explains how world is arranged in an orderly manner
Propositions ANS - Statements that can be true or false. This is the fundamental concept
Non-Propositions ANS - Not statements about matters of fact. They do not make a claim that can be
true or false
Exhort ANS - Let's go get dinner! Let's go hiking on Tuesday!
, Command ANS - Go to the store later to buy me some cheese. Don't do that.
Plead/Request ANS - Would you please stop that? Please read me a bedtime story!
Question ANS - What is the capitol of Florida? How much do pineapples cost?
Perform ANS - I hereby adjourn this meeting. I pronounce you husband and wife!
Which Sentence is a Non-Proposition?
- If the burgular did not go out the front door, they must have gone out the window
- The earth is the third planet from the sun
- Where are the keys to my car?
- Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world ANS - Where are the keys to my car?
Did the company really close that deal? It has had a great year. Where is the president right now? Let's
go ask whether the deal was closed.
In the above paragraph, which sentence expresses a proposition?
- Where is the president right now?
- Did the company really close that deal?
- Let's go ask whether the deal was closed.
- It has had a great year. ANS - It has had a great year.
Simple Propositions ANS - Declarative statements which do not contain a connective
Complex Propositions ANS - Contains the connective "and" which connects two separate propositions
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