Critical Thinking

Question 1

What are Idols of the Mind?

Answer 1

Habits that’s bad; distorts Reality and limits our judgement

Question 2

What’s the translation of Idol?

Answer 2

False beliefs/understanding

Question 3

What is Idol of the Tribe?

Answer 3

Faults that’s common in humans; will be committed at some point

Question 4

What is Idol of the Cave?

Answer 4

Smaller group with certain beliefs; lacks evidence

Question 5

What is Idols of the Marketplace?

Answer 5

Faults that occur when words aren’t clear/have different connotations.

Question 6

What is Idols of Theater?

Answer 6

Ways that thinking occurs in the system; religions and philosophies that can cause fantasy like view

Question 7

What is a translation of the word Cognitive?

Answer 7

Thoughts/mental processes

Question 8

What is the translation of Bias?

Answer 8

Inclination to unfairly prefer one thing over another.

Question 9

What causes an error in thinking?

Answer 9

Cognitive bias

Question 10

What does languages help us do?

Answer 10

Communicate

Question 11

What is a concept?

Answer 11

Ideas/words that help us express ourselves

Question 12

What is a genus?

Answer 12

Group that has several subcategories(species).

Question 13

What is a species?

Answer 13

Subgroup of a genus.

Question 14

A concept will come more ___ the more entities it has.

Answer 14

Abstract

Question 15

What is a decorative definition?

Answer 15

Assigns meanings to words by saying exactly what speaker meant.

Question 16

What is another word for denotative?

Answer 16

Extensional

Question 17

What is another word for connotative?

Answer 17

Intensional

Question 18

Denotative refers to?

Answer 18

Class members

Question 19

Connotative refers to?

Answer 19

Attributes

Question 20

What is a lexical definition?

Answer 20

Dictionary definition.

Question 21

What is gesturing/ostensive definition?

Answer 21

Verballing/physically a specific example.

Question 22

What is an enumerative definition?

Answer 22

Lists individual members of the class of things being defined; list of subclasses

Question 23

What is an operational definition?

Answer 23

Specifies a procedure what’s satisfied for the concept to be considered as satisfied

Question 24

Are operational definitions limited?

Answer 24

Yes

Question 25

What is a precising definition?

Answer 25

Reduces vagueness of a word

Question 26

What is humptydumptying?

Answer 26

Having an unusual way of using a word.

Question 27

What is a jargon?

Answer 27

A specialized vocabulary that’s used in a field of study/practice.

Question 28

What is a stimulative definition?

Answer 28

Definition that assigns new meaning to a word that’s not well understood.

Question 29

What is ambiguous?

Answer 29

A term that has two or more meanings

Question 30

What is the law of identity?

Answer 30

Principle of something is what it is

Question 31

What is the law of non-contradiction?

Answer 31

A proposition can’t be true or false

Question 32

What is the law of excluded middle?

Answer 32

A statement can’t be in between true and false.

Question 33

What is an argument?

Answer 33

A well reasoned case that’s made for a specific viewpoint.