Question: Individuals have the right to make informed decisions regarding their care when they are competent to do so.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: “If it is dinner time, I am going out to eat. It is dinner time, so I am going out to eat.”
Answer Choices:
A. Non Sequitur
B. Post Hoc
C. False Cause
D. Modus Ponens
Answer: D. Modus Ponens
Question: When conducting a survey, it is important to choose a sample that _________.
Answer Choices:
A. is valid
B. has members with the same views
C. is intelligent
D. is random
Answer: D. is random
Question: Which of the following words from this argument is a conclusion indicator?
Answer Choices:
Since
Thus
Philosophers
Truth
Answer: Thus
Question: Which of the following must be true for ‘P and Q’ to be true?
Answer Choices:
P and Q are both true.
Neither P nor Q is true.
Exactly one of P and Q is true.
At least one of P and Q is true.
At most one of P and Q is true.
Answer: P and Q are both true.
Question: Please complete the following sentence by choosing the correct conjunction:
Television is entertaining, ______ it can be instructive.
Answer Choices:
moreover
or
so
but
Answer: but
Question: Informal logic is _________.
Answer Choices:
the study of mathematical properties of languages.
the study of arguments as they exist in everyday language.
the study of formal validity without a focus on everyday usages of critical thinking.
the scientific examination of specific truths.
Answer: the study of arguments as they exist in everyday language.
Question: An outraged writer should write an argument based solely on his/her feelings of outrage.
Answer Choices:
A) True
B) False
Answer: B) False
Question: Which of the following is a claim?
Answer Choices:
Shut the door.
Is the door shut?
Did you shut the door?
The door is shut.
Answer: The door is shut.
Question: In deductive arguments, __________.
Answer Choices:
The premises support the conclusion probabilistically.
The premises can establish the argument stronger.
The conclusion is intended to follow necessarily from the premises.
Answer: The conclusion is intended to follow necessarily from the premises.
Question: Which of the following is the definition of logic employed by the book With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking?
Answer Choices:
A study of persuasion.
The study of arguments.
The study of how to make critical thinking a part of your life.
The study of arguments as tools for arriving at warranted judgments.
Answer: The study of arguments as tools for arriving at warranted judgments.
Question: The authors of this text claim that logic is __________.
Answer Choices:
a human invention.
something that only exists in certain parts of the world.
something that began in England.
a human attribute that can be learned.
Answer: a human attribute that can be learned.
Question: Epidemiology is a deductive, as opposed to an inductive, science.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False