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Types of Disagreements
Trivia
100
A particular kind of sentence that brings a message which can be said to be either true or false.
What is a statement?
100
A statement which is false by logical structure.
What is a self-contradiction?
100
(Provide a consistent statement) The sun is hot.
What is the sun is yellow?
100
The center of the earth is made of hot, liquid iron. The center of the earth is hollow.
What is a real disagreement?
100
The capital of Alabama
What is Montgomery?
200
This looks like a statement, but it cannot even be said to be false. It doesn't refer to anything.
What is nonsense?
200
A statement that requires evidence from outside investigation before it can be declared true or false.
What is a supported statement?
200
(Give an implication statement) All honey is sticky.
What is some honey is sticky?
200
Scary movies are the most frightening things around. Abortion is the most frightening thing around.
What is a verbal disagreement.
200
The actor who is playing Bilbo Baggins in the new Hobbit movie.
What is Martin Freeman?
300
Statements which have immediately apparent truth values.
What is a self-supporting statement?
300
Two statements that are true at the same time.
What are consistent statements?
300
(Give a consistent statement) All stingrays have gills.
What is All stingrays are water dwellers?
300
I think that seaweed salad is the most delicious Japanese food. I think that sushi is the most delicious food.
What is an apparent disagreement?
300
The part of the car that allows the engine to shift gears.
What is the transmission?
400
Statement by a person concerning his own desires, beliefs or feelings.
What is a self-report?
400
Two statements that are related when the truth of the first requires the truth of the second.
What is implication?
400
(Give a logically equivalent statement) No Baptists are Americans.
What is No Americans are Baptists? (Although both are false, they are equivalent)
400
Mountain climbing is the most dangerous sport. Bullfighting is the most dangerous sport.
What is an apparent disagreement?
400
The day Lily was born.
What is November 23rd, 2010?
500
A statement which is always true by logical structure.
What is a tautology?
500
Two statements that imply the truth of each other.
What is logical equivalence?
500
(Give a logically equivalent statement) The answers to Jeopardy questions are tricky statements.
Tricky statements are the answers to Jeopardy questions.
500
Gravity is relative to time and space. Gravity is a constant that never changes.
What is a real disagreement?
500
The number of cans of Vienna sausage that can fit into a normal sized mouse cage.
What is 4?
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