Chapter 5 Review

Question 1

Opinions formed from evidence; what people reason to be true or likely true from evidence or reason.

Answer 1

inferences

Question 2

Conjecture, guess, or hypothesis, without sufficient supporting evidence.

Answer 2

speculation

Question 3

God always thinks correctly, and the Bible commands us to think like Him (Isaiah 55:7-8) and emulate His ___. (Ephesians 5:1)

Answer 3

character

Question 4

A positive mental attitude toward a proposition; something a person accepts as true

Answer 4

belief

Question 5

A good argument has true ___, and the conclusion follows from them.

Answer 5

premises

Question 6

That which is suggested by evidence or reasoning. That which follows logically from something else

Answer 6

implications

Question 7

Comforming to the mind of God

Answer 7

true

Question 8

Pertaining to the amount, degree, or number of something.

Answer 8

quantitatively

Question 9

___ is the study of the principles of correct reasoning. It is the way God thinks

Answer 9

Logic

Question 10

Having confidence in something not perceived with the senses.

Answer 10

faith

Question 11

A proposition in an argument that is taken as an accepted fact.

Answer 11

premise

Question 12

The disclosure of information from God to man

Answer 12

revelation (divine)

Question 13

true, justified belief

Answer 13

knowledge

Question 14

independent of the person; something that is the same for all people

Answer 14

objective

Question 15

A philosophy advocating the repression of emotion and indifference to pleasure or pain.

Answer 15

stoicism

Question 16

A truth claim, may be true or false

Answer 16

proposition

Question 17

To be ___ is to reason incorrectly. But god, by His nature always reasons correctly.

Answer 17

illogical

Question 18

The Bible reveals that human beings are made in God’s image, and therefore reflect some of His attributes, including the ability to ___.

Answer 18

reason

Question 19

In accordance with the laws of Logic: logical

Answer 19

rational

Question 20

The tendency to induce belief or behavior in a person. An argument is one in which most people will accept the conclusion as true

Answer 20

persuasive

Question 21

The disclosure of information from God to man contained in the Bible.

Answer 21

special revelation

Question 22

A series of propositions where the truth of one is said to follow from the others

Answer 22

argument

Question 23

The proposition in an argument that the person is attempting to prove

Answer 23

conclusion

Question 24

To copy or imitate; to match the characteristics of another.

Answer 24

emulate

Question 25

Contrary to the mind of God

Answer 25

false

Question 26

universal, invariant, abstract rules of correct reasoning

Answer 26

laws of logic

Question 27

A truth claim, may be true or false

Answer 27

proposition

Question 28

Pertaining to the quality, kind, or nature of a thing, regardless of the amount or degree.

Answer 28

qualitatively

Question 29

Disobedience to God

Answer 29

sin

Question 30

Unbelievers too are made in the image of God, and hence have the capacity for ___ reasoning, God has given them knowledge as well.

Answer 30

rational

Question 31

having supreme power or authority and not required to answer to any higher authority

Answer 31

sovereign