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PHIL 1010 Critical Thinking Midterm Questions And Answers Argument ANS An attempt to provide reasons for thinking that something is true Premise ANS In an argument, the reasons someone thinks something is true Conclusion ANS The belief being supported in the argument Statement ANS A s...

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PHIL 1010 Critical Thinking Midterm Questions And
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Argument ANS An attempt to provide reasons for thinking that something is true



Premise ANS In an argument, the reasons someone thinks something is true



Conclusion ANS The belief being supported in the argument



Statement ANS A sentence that makes a claim that is either true or false



Identifying an argument ANS 1) Look for an attempt to convince
2) Find the conclusion (Indicator words: so, therefore, hence, thus, etc.)
3) Find the premises (Indicator words: because, since, as indicated by, due to, etc.)



Unstated conclusion ANS When the author doesn't explicitly state the conclusion in the argument



Unstated Premise ANS A premise you add to an argument to make the argument clearer



Assertion ANS A single statement that could be part of an argument



Description ANS Intended to give the reader a mental image of something, using physical things,
activities, feelings, sounds, emotions, taste



Questions/ Instructions ANS Questions and instructions can neither be true or false and they can't
be statements. Therefore, they can't be arguments.



Explanations ANS There are explanations on how to do something and explanations on why
something is true.

, Explanandum ANS The statement of what's to be explained



Explanans ANS The statements that do the explaining



Putting Arguments in standard form ANS 1) Put all statements in declarative sentences and
replace all pronouns with nouns
2) Insert any unstated premises and unstated conclusions
3) Place the premises before the conclusion
4) Number each statement with ( ) or brackets
5) Indicate conclusion using "therefore"



Linked arguments ANS When the conclusion of one argument is the premise of another argument
the two arguments are linked



Subarguments ANS Arguments that are used to support the premises of the main argument



Characteristics of a good argument ANS 1) They have true premises
2) They have a proper form



True Premise ANS A statement is true when what it says about the world is accurate



Proper form ANS an argument has proper form when (if the premises are true) they would
provide support to the conclusion



Audience ANS The group that the person making the argument wishes to convince



Problem of Ignorance ANS The problem of ignorance is that you don't know everything

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