Post hoc ergo propter hoc Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

APPEAL TO IGNORANCE An appeal to ignorance uses lack of evidence (for or against) as the basis of the argument. For example, if something can't be disproven, it must be true! Example You have a family member who has a terminal disease. You hear of a possible new cure being offered in another country. You contact the group promoting this cure and ask if it works. They say, "No one has ever shown that it doesn't work, so of course it works!" HASTY GENERALIZATION Definition A hasty ...

"Although Ms. Jackson has been accused of misusing government funds, she has donated all of her income for the past three years to charity." - STRAWMAN Setting up an artificially easy argument to refute in place of the real issue "Sam Smith divorced his loving wife of ten years. How could he be qualified to be mayor?" - AD HOMINEM An attack on the character of the individual or the opponent rather than his or her actual arguments or qualifications "Teaching kids about sex educatio...

APPEAL TO IGNORANCE - correct answer An appeal to ignorance uses lack of evidence (for or against) as the basis of the argument. For example, if something can't be disproven, it must be true! Example You have a family member who has a terminal disease. You hear of a possible new cure being offered in another country. You contact the group promoting this cure and ask if it works. They say, "No one has ever shown that it doesn't work, so of course it works!" HASTY GENERALIZATION - correct...

WGU D265 Reason and Evidence 100% Solved Propositions statements that are true or false. ex. 1+1=2 Non-Propositions statement that cannot be true or false. EX. Lets go fly a kite Simple propositions simply true or false on their own. Complex propositions Truth depends on the truth of their parts and their internal logic. ex. this soda is coke or pepsi. Words used to identify Independent Propositions and or either.....or..... but if.....then...... Bad inferential structure argument is bad, ...

D265 Critical Thinking FINAL EXAM Q&A- Reason and Evidence Graded A+ PROPOSITIONS *** Are statements that can be true or false NON-PROPOSITONS *** Are sentences that are not statements about matters of fact or fiction. They do not make a claim that can be true or false. SIMPLE PROPOSITIONS *** Have no internal logic structure, meaning whether they are true or false does not depend on whether a part of them is true or false. They are simply true or false on their own. (Example: Harry Pot...

onset and rime - Answer- parts of spoken language that are smaller than syllables but larger than phonemics phoneme - Answer- the smallest part of SPOKEN language grapheme - Answer- the smallest part of WRITTEN language phonics - Answer- the fairly predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes phonemic awareness - Answer- the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken langauge onset - Answer- the initial consonant sound of a syllable (in bag is...

Propositions statements that are true or false. ex. 1+1=2 Non-Propositions statement that cannot be true or false. EX. Lets go fly a kite Simple propositions simply true or false on their own. Complex propositions Truth depends on the truth of their parts and their internal logic. ex. this soda is coke or pepsi. Words used to identify Independent Propositions and or either.....or..... but if.....then...... Bad inferential structure argument is bad, be...

Critical Thinking: Reason and Evidence D265 Which sentence is a non-proposition? - If the burglar did not go out the front door, they must have gone out a 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 ab...

Principle of Charity we should choose the reconstructed argument that gives the benefit of the doubt to the person presenting the argument confirmation bias a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence Alief An automatic or habitual belief-like attitude which may or may not be in tension with the subject's explicit beliefs Heuristic a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments ...

Praxis 5038 Latest Update Graded A Neoclassicism (Late 17th c. and 18th c.) Restoration, Augustan, Age of Johnson. Writers looked to the ideals and art forms of classical times. The age of reason. (Austen, Moliere, Johnson, Locke, Pope) Romanticism (extended) but technically Coincides with the age of revolutions, reaction to the neoclassical period. Nature, symbolism, myth, emotion, lyric poetry, the self. Imagination and expression over reason. (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats,...