Exam 1: Critical Thinking and Argumentation

In critical thinking,we are concerned with……….

A poorly based premise or an inadequately supported conclusion leads to the …………….

Critical thinking helps us to………

Which of the following is essential for developing critical thinking?

……….is an extreme sort of fallacy of emphasis

The fallacy of attributing the property of parts of a thing to the whole thing is called…………

To attempt to persuade by giving good reason is to give ……….

The expressions that are used to differentiate between the premises and conclusions of an argument is called

To become a good decision maker, one has to develop

There are mainly ……… types of arguments

The supporting statement of an argument is known as

Introduction of a topic different from the topic under consideration to divert attention is called …………..

Fallacy of ambhibody is a ………….. fallacy.

When we attribute the properties of the part to the whole, we have

Which of the following is not a barrier to critical thinking?

Which of the following is a criterion for evaluating an argument?

Distorting author's speech by shifting emphasis to one's own benefit results in……..

……………is a lexical ambiguity.

An argument should have…………..to consider it as a valid argument.

to call a string of statements, arguments, they must be