WGU D265 Critical Thinking & Logic – 100% Pass
Reasoned Opinion ✔✔Statements that express opinions that are supported by reasons and evidence.
Reasoning ✔✔A logical and systematic approach to thinking about something.
Evidence ✔✔The facts available to support a conclusion.
Conclusion ✔✔The statement in an argument that we claim is implied by the argument's premises.
Self-Reflection ✔✔The act of examining one's thoughts, feelings and motives.
Objective Statements ✔✔Statements based on factual research that are subject to forms of verification, but do not require critical thought.
Argument ✔✔A set of statements containing at least one premise and a conclusion. 1 / 3
Critical Thinking ✔✔A method of approaching a problem or decision that entails systematically evaluating arguments and reasoning.
Systematic ✔✔A process performed according to a plan; Methodical.
Premises ✔✔The set of accepted assumptions upon which an argument is built.
Fallacy ✔✔An argument that is based on poor reasoning.
Inference Indicator ✔✔A word that signal whether a sentence is a premise or a conclusion.
Non-Arguments ✔✔A set of statements that do not contain supporting statements, and therefore they do not express reasoning.
Assumption ✔✔Statements that the conclusion of an argument depend on.
Antecedent ✔✔In an "if-then" statement, the phrase that is prefaced with "if". 2 / 3
Description ✔✔A set of statements intended intended to draw a picture in the mind of a listener; an example of an unsupported statement.
Deductive Reasoning ✔✔An approach to reasoning which attempts to draw a conclusion that cannot be false if all the premises are true.
Broken Chain Fallacy ✔✔An incorrectly formatted chain argument that does not link a statement to the conclusion.
Inductive Reasoning ✔✔An approach that uses certain information to reach a conclusion about what probably occurred, or to reach a conclusion about what is expected to occur.
Correlation ✔✔A pattern of two events occurring around the same time. This pattern can be coincidental, and happen by chance, or causal, when one event causes the other event to occur.
Modus Ponens ✔✔A pattern of deductive reasoning in which the first part of an if-then phrase is confirmed, and as a result, it follows that the consequent or "then" statement is also confirmed.
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