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Wishful Thinking - answer holding any belief, true or false, because the
truth of the belief would be pleasing to you
Which of the following is clearly not an example of wishful thinking: -
answer I really want to be a billionare
Which of the following is an example of wishful thinking: - answer
President Doodle would never betray us to Oceania, it would be so
upsetting to me
In the basketball example discussed in Chapter One, in which case would
the protagonist not be guilty of wishful thinking - answer If there were
already age segregated of professional basketball leagues especially for
players over 40
When ethical decision makers are faced with an important decision they -
answer feel a responsibility to make the best decision they can when
their actions could harm others
The primary purpose of studying critical thinking and formal methods like
logic is - answer to achieve excellence in reasoning in order to improve
one's success in making difficult and important decisions
, A contradiction is a sentence such that - answer it is always false in
virtue of its logical form
If the pursuit of truth is one's principal goal, then in the face of strong
evidence, or when confronted with good reasons to abandon one's claims,
one should be willing to - answer acknowledge the evidence and abandon
the claim previously accepted
Consider the following argument: 'if you want to do well in this course,
then you should attend its classes. But I know you; you don't care about
doing well in any course, let alone this one. So you shouldn't attend its
classes" Think about the structure of this argument and determine which
of the following is correct: - answer As evidenced by the word 'so', the
conclusion of this argument is 'you shouldn't attend its classes'
Which of the following is not an argument? - answer The earth's
movement around the sun causes the seasons
Which of the following is true of arguments? - answer if an argument is a
sound argument, then it is also a valid argument
Which of the following is not true about arguments? - answer An
argument can have infinite set of premises.
A sound argument can have false premises. - answer False
An argument is sound if and only if it is such that - answer it has all true
premises and is also a valid argument.
Which of the following sets of sentences is not an argument? - answer
The average hippopotamus consumes up to 150 lbs of food per day.
What is the first step in responsible argument analysis in informal
contexts? - answer Charitably sketch the main skeleton of the argument.
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