A Concise Introduction to Logic – Test Bank: Complete Questions & Verified Answers

A Concise Introduction to Logic
– Test Bank: Complete
Questions & Verified Answers
Statement of belief/opinion - ANSWER-Expression about what someone happens
to believe or think about something


Loosely associated statements - ANSWER-May be about the same general subject
but they lack a claim that one of them is proved by the others


expository passage - ANSWER-begins with a topic sentence followed by one or
more sentences that develop the topic sentence


Illustration - ANSWER-An expression involving one or more examples that is
intended to show what something means of how it is done. Indicator word "thus"


explanation - ANSWER-an expression that purports to shed light on some event or
phenomenon(a fact)


conditional statement - ANSWER-a statement that can be written in if-then form

, deductive argument - ANSWER-An argument incorporating the claim that it's
possible for the conclusion to be false given that the premises are true


inductive argument - ANSWER-An argument incorporating the claim it's
improbable that the conclusion to be false given that the premises are true


Deductive arguments forms: - ANSWER-Argument from mathematics
Argument from definition(meaning)
Categorical syllogism (form)
Hypothetical syllogism (form)
Disjunctive syllogism (form)


Inductive argument forms: - ANSWER-Prediction
Analogy
Generalization
Argument from authority
Causal inference


argument from mathematics - ANSWER-Depend essentially on mathematical
reasoning


Argument from definition(meaning) - ANSWER-The reasoning depends on nothing
but an understanding of language