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WGU D265 TERMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED
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WGU D265 TERMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSUPDATED 2024 - 2025
Critical Thinking ANS - the ability to think carefully about thinking and reasoning—to criticize your own
reasoning.
Propositions ANS - statements that can be true or false
Simple Proposition ANS - have no internal logical structure, meaning whether they are true or false
does not depend on whether a part of them is true or false The sky is blue.
Complex Proposition ANS - have internal logical structure, meaning they are composed of simple
propositions. The sky is blue, but it does not look blue to me right now.
Bad Inferential Structure ANS - premises do not demonstrate or support conclusions, premises are true
without being compelled to accept the conclusion
False Premise ANS - premise is false
Conclusion Indicators ANS - Have the general sense of "I have told you some things, now here is what I
want you to believe". Therefore, so, it follows that, hence, thus, entails that, we may conclude that,
implies that, wherefore, as a result
Premise Indicators ANS - "from this fact I am going to infer something else Because, for, given that, in
that, as, since, as indicated by
Argument ANS - any purportedly rational movement from evidence or premises to a conclusion. I
believe x because of y, z, and w.
Deductive ANS - the premises provide conclusive support for the conclusion - if they guarantee the
conclusion or make the conclusion certain.
, Induction ANS - arguments where the premises make the conclusion probable
Abduction ANS - arguments where the best available explanation is chosen as the correct explanation
Soundness ANS - both about structure and truth. Must have good structure and true premises.
Truth ANS - proposition makes a statement about that world and the world either is or is not the way
the proposition describes it to be.
Validity ANS - property of an argument structure, "this structure is such that if the premises of any
argument are true, then the conclusion must be true.
Cogent ANS - all true premises, and the premises give strong inductive support for the conclusion.
Strength ANS - in the inductive argument, true premises make the conclusion probably true.
Formal ANS - refers to the structure of things
Formal fallacy of affirming the consequent ANS - you have made an argument with bad structure
Informal fallacy of straw figure ANS - structure of your argument is not what is at issue
Affirming the consequent ANS - Has a structure that is analogous to the following argument: If I am in
New York, then I am in the United States. I am in the United States. Therefore, I am in New York.
Antecedent ANS - the part of the statement after the word "if"
Consequent ANS - the part of the statement after the word "then"
Modus Ponens ANS - If X, then Y. X. Therefore, Y
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