D265: CRITICAL THINKING: SECTION 1
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Understanding arguments, reasons, and evidence - Answer-thinking carefully about
thinking, about arguments and positions.
What new understanding do you have around propositions? - Answer-Any proposition
may be affirmed or denied
Why do you think it is fundamental to understand the definition for propositions? -
Answer-Proposition mirrors the world and explains how world is arranged in an orderly
manner
Propositions - Answer-Statements that can be true or false.
Non-Propositions - Answer-Not statements about matters of fact. They do not make a
claim that can be true or false
Exhort - Answer-Let's go get dinner! Let's go hiking on Tuesday!
Command - Answer-Go to the store later to buy me some cheese. Don't do that.
Plead/Request - Answer-Would you please stop that? Please read me a bedtime story!
Question - Answer-What is the capital of Florida? How much do pineapples cost?
Perform - Answer-I hereby adjourn this meeting. I pronounce you husband and wife.
Which sentence is a non-proposition? - Answer-Where are the keys to my car?
Did the company really close that deal? It has had a great year. Where is the president
right now? Let's go ask whether the deal was closed.
In the above paragraph, which sentence expresses a proposition?
- Where is the president right now?
- Did the company really close that deal?
- Let's go ask whether the deal was closed.
- It has had a great year. - Answer-It has had a great year
What is the difference between simple and complex propositions? - Answer-Simple
propositions are declaritive sentences which do not contain a connective. A complex
proposition contains the connective "and" which connects two separate propositions.
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Understanding arguments, reasons, and evidence - Answer-thinking carefully about
thinking, about arguments and positions.
What new understanding do you have around propositions? - Answer-Any proposition
may be affirmed or denied
Why do you think it is fundamental to understand the definition for propositions? -
Answer-Proposition mirrors the world and explains how world is arranged in an orderly
manner
Propositions - Answer-Statements that can be true or false.
Non-Propositions - Answer-Not statements about matters of fact. They do not make a
claim that can be true or false
Exhort - Answer-Let's go get dinner! Let's go hiking on Tuesday!
Command - Answer-Go to the store later to buy me some cheese. Don't do that.
Plead/Request - Answer-Would you please stop that? Please read me a bedtime story!
Question - Answer-What is the capital of Florida? How much do pineapples cost?
Perform - Answer-I hereby adjourn this meeting. I pronounce you husband and wife.
Which sentence is a non-proposition? - Answer-Where are the keys to my car?
Did the company really close that deal? It has had a great year. Where is the president
right now? Let's go ask whether the deal was closed.
In the above paragraph, which sentence expresses a proposition?
- Where is the president right now?
- Did the company really close that deal?
- Let's go ask whether the deal was closed.
- It has had a great year. - Answer-It has had a great year
What is the difference between simple and complex propositions? - Answer-Simple
propositions are declaritive sentences which do not contain a connective. A complex
proposition contains the connective "and" which connects two separate propositions.
