Fallacy of division Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Which factor of production are power tools, hammers, steel, and other building materials examples of? A natural resource A human resource Capital Entrepreneurship - ANSWER Capital Which economic assertion is described by a statement of fact? All other things unchanged Fallacy of false cause Positive statements Normative statements - ANSWER Positive statements Which concept relates to limited resources? Scarcity Deflation Choice Specialization - ANSWER Scarcity A town chooses...

Indexical - Correct Answer-words whose meaning is dependant on context Attributes of critical thinker - Correct Answer-Open minded Creative Analytical Affirming the consequent - Correct Answer-Fallacy, if x then y, y therefore x Denying the antecedant - Correct Answer-Fallacy if x then y, not x therefore not y Affirming a disjunct - Correct Answer-Fallacy XvY, X therefore ~Y Denying a conjuct - Correct Answer-Fallacy ~(X&Y) , ~X therefore Y broken chain - Correct Answer-falla...

Ad hominem - Answer-fallacy in which a person or speaker is attacked, instead of the issue Analogical reasoning - Answer-considers two similar situations and draws conclusions based on the similarity Burden of proof - Answer-speaker's job to convince the audience to alter their viewpoint by proving that a policy is necessary Casual order - Answer-speech presented in a cause/effect order Channel - Answer-means used to communicate a message Central Idea - Answer-thesis of a speech, or stat...

Phil 201 Chapter 5 Review Practice Questions 2024. fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER an argument form that is both common and defective; a recurring mistake in reasoning Informal Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER is detected by looking at the content of the argument. Formal Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER results from an invalid argument form. Only deductive arguments can have formal fallacies. Genetic Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER The fallacy of arguing that a claim is true or false solely because of its origi...

ECON 1110 Ellis UNT Exam 1 Questions and Answers Rated A Macroeconomics Study of economy as a whole; national based Microeconomics Studies decisions of individuals, households, and firms; businesses Scarcity exists because there are not enough resources available to produce all the goods and services that people want and need Choice one alternative is selected over another Opportunity Cost the best alternative given up when we make a choice or a decision Factors of Production (Resources/Inp...

Abeka Science Earth and Space (Quarter Exam) Test 3 what is the most valuable precious metal? - platinum What type of volcano is broad and gently sloping with mil eruptions? - shield volcano What term describes rocks that bend downward during the folding process to form a trough-like structure? - syncline What is the point on he earth's surface directly above where an earthquake begins? - epicenter What are large pieces of solid volcanic ejecta that solidify before being eje...

Most people think_____ will motivate them more than it actually does pay Making work _______ challenging may motivate better than making a job easier more Employers _______ the power of acknowledgment and thanks underestimate Common sense is necessary - but not sufficient for predicting human behavior in organizations• Success: task skills + management skills Behavior is predictable What is empirical evidence? in modern science - evidence arisin...

Wgu C168 Critical Thinking Exam Questions And Answers 100% Solved Fallacies of Presumption - answerComplex question Begging the question Suppressed evidence False Dichotomy - More choices are possible. Fallacies of Relavance - answerAppeal to emotion Red Herring Straw Person - distorted argument Argument against a person - Indirect Abusive Circumstantial Tu Quoque(you too) Fallacies of Ambiguity - answerAmphiboly - word has more than one meaning. Equivocation - change of meaning i...

heuristic - correct answer mental shortcut WOB - correct answer Web of beliefs Semantics - correct answer the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning Conjunction Fallacy - correct answer when people think that two events are more likely to occur together than either individual event Occam's Razor - correct answer The philosophy that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one reductio ad ...

PSY 304 week 4 Quiz – Arizona State University 2023 updated. Question 1 2 out of 2 points Consider this argument: "When Caitlin was six years old she told her Mom that in school she wanted to learn how come babies grew up to look like their parents. The science that deals with that is genetics. Therefore, when she was a little girl Caitlin had already announced that she planned to major in genetics." That argument is an example of __________. Selected Answer: the fallacy of false...