Vocabulary
The systematic evaluation or formulation of beliefs, or
statements, by rational standards
words that signal a premise or conclusion is present
What are indicator words?
______ are often confused with arguments
What are explanations?
An assertion that something is or is not the case
What is a statement? (Claim or proposition)
tells us how or why something is the case
What is an explanation?
The fallacy in which someone's position is distorted, weakened, or oversimplified to be more easily refuted
What is the strawman?
The study of good reasoning and the rules that govern it
What is logic?
A reason or statement in support of another statement
What is a premise?
Famously referred to man as a "rational animal"
Who is Aristotle?
A group of statements in which some of them (the premises) are intended to support another of them (the conclusion).
What is an argument?
A process of reasoning from premise(s) to conclusion
What is inference?
Tendency to embrace information that supports beliefs you already hold and reject what contradicts them
What is confirmation bias?