WGU D265 Terms Already Graded A+
Critical Thinking - The skill of carefully evaluating one's own thinking and reasoning.
Propositions - Statements that can be assessed as true or false.
Simple Proposition - Statements that are inherently true or false without internal logical structure, like ...
WGU D265 Terms Already Graded A+
Critical Thinking - The skill of carefully evaluating one's own thinking and reasoning.
Propositions - Statements that can be assessed as true or false.
Simple Proposition - Statements that are inherently true or false without internal logical structure, like
"The sky is blue."
Complex Proposition - Statements composed of simple propositions whose truth depends on the truth
of their parts and their internal logic, such as "The sky is blue, but it does not look blue to me right now."
Bad Inferential Structure - Occurs when premises fail to adequately support or justify the conclusion,
where true premises do not necessarily lead to accepting the conclusion.
False Premise - A premise in an argument that is untrue.
Conclusion Indicators - Words or phrases signaling an intention to persuade someone of a conclusion,
such as "Therefore," "So," "It follows that," "Hence," "Thus," "Implies that."
, Premise Indicators - Words or phrases indicating the introduction of a premise or reason, like "Because,"
"For," "Given that," "In that," "As," "Since."
Argument - A rational movement from evidence or premises to a conclusion, typically structured as "I
believe X because of Y, Z, and W."
Deductive - Arguments where the premises provide conclusive support for the conclusion, guaranteeing
or making the conclusion certain.
Induction - Arguments where the premises make the conclusion probable rather than certain.
Abduction - Arguments where the best available explanation is chosen as the correct explanation.
Soundness - A property of arguments that encompasses both structural validity and truth of premises,
requiring both a well-structured argument and true premises.
Truth - The correspondence of a proposition with reality, where a proposition describes the world as it is
or is not.
Validity ✔️property of an argument structure, "this structure is such that if the premises of any
argument are true, then the conclusion must be true.
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