Chapters 1-5
After thinking about something, you often come to this.
What is a conclusion?
A decision to believe something after identifying and evaluating the evidence.
What are inferences?
These might turn out to be false.
What are probable truths?
Sellers use this to convince you to buy from them.
What are advertisements?
An attempt to convince you that something is true.
What is an argument?
Finding and evaluating evidence to make the best decision.
What is critical thinking?
Information that helps you decide if something is true or false.
What is evidence?
"And", "or", and "if" used with "then" are examples of these.
What are logical connectives?
A promise between 2 or more people that can be either spoken or written.
What is an agreement?
Changing an original argument into a much weaker argument that can easily be proven false, is an example of this.
What is a straw man argument?
Anything you choose to do or believe.
What is a decision?
Evidence given by a professional with knowledge of a subject.
What is expert knowledge?
We use these to show if 2 or more groups have something in common.
What are venn diagrams?
A written agreement.
What is a contract?
An attempt to avoid the real argument by changing the arguments claims or conclusion.
What is a red herring argument?
Things you think are true and things you say are true (written or spoken).
What are beliefs and claims?
Information that has been proven true.
What are facts?
Something that is likely false, but might be true.
What is probably false?
This is part of what makes us human but can sometimes interfere with our ability to think clearly.
What are our emotions?
These are the 2 types of persuasive arguments.
What are valid and invalid arguments?
Things that you really don't believe are true, but say are true.
What are lies?
Information that cannot or has not been proven true.
What are opinions?
"If- then" statements are known as this.
What are conditional statements?
When a person or group of people who are near the same age, try to pressure another person their age to do something that he/ she doesn't want to do.
What is peer pressure?
This type of argument claims that because two things are similar, what is true about one is true about the other.
What are analogy arguments?