Critical Thinking
Evidence
more figures of speech
more bad logic
wild card
100
Helps to keep a debate researcher impartial and without bias.
What is disinterest?
100
Facts, opinions and objects used to prove a point
What is evidence?
100
A figure of speech that celebrates a lack of knowledge.
What is Ignorance is Bliss?
100
Picking one thing to support a claim when other things in the same category may not support the claim.
What is cherry picking?
100
His daughter's name is Dorothy Junior.
Who is Jay Heinrichs?
200
A cognitive skill that promotes understanding through reason.
What is critical thinking?
200
The best evidence to prove a point.
What is primary evidence?
200
The other part of "a tooth for a tooth."
What is "an eye for an eye."
200
Lyin' Ted Cruz!
What is an Ad Hominem attack?
200
He was a very persuasive Angry Man.
Who is juror #8 (or Henry Fonda)?
300
A type of deductive reasoning.
What is a syllogism?
300
Strong, convincing, irrefutable.
What is conclusive evidence?
300
Google the answer!
What is an example of verbing?
300
This is correct because it is not incorrect!
What is an example of tautology (or a tautological claim)?
300
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
What is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty?
400
A chain of reasoning that ties a general principle to a specific situation to come to a conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
400
Taken from court documents.
What is judicial evidence?
400
This makes the heart grow fonder.
What is absence?
400
Most people believe it so it must be true!
What is the band wagon fallacy?
400
Formal debate starts with this.
What is the proposition?
500
A phrase that shortens syllogistic reasoning, assuming the general principle without stating it.
What is an enthymeme?
500
The absence of evidence used to prove a point is this kind of evidence.
What is negative evidence?
500
A figure of speech denoting deep affection; also the title of a popular song The Beatles.
What is All You Need is Love?
500
I feel that this is the right choice.
What is an example of confirmation bias.
500
Without this there is no debate.
What is a controversy?
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