PHIL 105 Final Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers 2025/2025
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PHIL 105 Final Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers 2025/2025
Acceptability, relevance, and sufficiency - ANSWERSThe three criteria for evaluating an argument are
Critical Thinking - ANSWERSThe careful application of reason in the determination of whether a claim is true
Premise - AN...
PHIL 105 Final Exam Questions with
100% Correct Answers 2025/2025
Acceptability, relevance, and sufficiency - ANSWERSThe three criteria for evaluating an argument are
Critical Thinking - ANSWERSThe careful application of reason in the determination of whether a claim is
true
Premise - ANSWERSA claim offered as a reason for believing another claim
Opinion - ANSWERSA view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or
knowledge
The truth of the premise counts in favor of the argument's conclusion - ANSWERSA premise to an
argument is relevant to that argument's conclusion if:
The premises, taken together, give a strong enough reason to accept the conclusion - ANSWERSThe
premises of an argument are sufficient if:
A deductive argument - ANSWERSAn argument in which the conclusion cannot be false, if the premises
are true
An Inductive argument - ANSWERSAn argument in which the conclusion is held to be improbable, if the
premises are true
A fallacy - ANSWERSA defect in an argument that consists in something other than merely false premises
Cogent Argument - ANSWERSThe acceptable, relevant premises are sufficient to support the conclusion
, Valid Argument - ANSWERSIt is impossible for the premises to be true while the conclusion is false
Difference between "argument" and "explanation" - ANSWERSExplanations merely seek to inform,
whereas argument seek to persuade
the basis for determining the relative weakness or strength of an argument - ANSWERSThe amount of
support the premises provide for the conclusion
Value Judgments - ANSWERSJudgments concerning "matters of taste" or ethical determinations
Dysphemisms (loaded terms) - ANSWERSWords which carry strong emotive value or associative power
Rhetoric - ANSWERSThe discipline or practice frequently referred to as "the art of persuasion"
Equivocation - ANSWERSThe fallacy of sliding from one meaning of a term to another in the middle of an
argument. In
other words, using an ambiguous term in more than one sense, thus making an argument
misleading
An interested party - ANSWERSA person who stands to gain something from our belief in a claim is
known as
A disinterested party - ANSWERSA person who stands to gain nothing from our belief in a claim is known
as
A stipulative definition - ANSWERSWhen a new or old term is designated to mean something distinct
within a specific context, it is
said to have
Argumentum ad Hominem ("Argument against the Person") - ANSWERSWhen an arguer attacks the
person with whom they are arguing, rather than that person's
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