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A person ready to believe anything they hear.
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Attack a similar yet unrelated topic to original argument.
Person A: Our society should be taxed less.Person B: It is unjust to promote a society that neglects the poor. |
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| A person who refuses to believe anything told to them, dispite the evidence shown |
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| Evaluating what you hear based on evidence found in support or opposition of question or statement |
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| Basic unit of reasoning in which an assertion is derived from other assertions. |
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First half of hypothetical question
- If X is a man, then X is mortal.
"X is a man" is the antecedent for this proposition. |
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Attack the person, say something negative about a person so that what they're saying now cannot be true.
He eats babys, you shouldn't listen to him |
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If then statements.
If you touch the fire, then you will get burned. |
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used to speed up the process of finding a satisfactory solution, where an exhaustive search is impractical.
"I always use my rule of thumb when shopping for groceries, if it costs more than 15$ i'm not buying it" |
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Tautology is a repetition of the same idea in different words.
| "free gift" |
"gift" is, by definition, something given without charge |
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Doubting a person because you think they have an alterior motive.
"the only reason he says that is because he wants money from them." |
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People who eat mushrooms straight out of the forest, simply because they think that "anything that grows out of the ground must be good for you," |
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Also semantic statements, something is by definition the other thing.
All bachelors are unmarried
The barber cut hair for a living |
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The opinion on another person or thing
"Homer is a pretty nice guy." |
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Statements based on your own personal feelings
"I hate cake." |
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A statement that is impossible to verify true or false
"There is life after death" |
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A statement that is based off observation.
If a student finished four out of five assignments and stated, "I only completed four-fifths of my work," she has made an empirical statement. If she only finished four out of five assignments and stated, "I finished four assignments, but the fifth was too hard," she has made a conceptual statement
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Use words to describe the levels of a scale. Variables assessed on a nominal scale are called categorical variables
"rocks can be generally categorized as igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic" |
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Ordinal measurements describe order, but not relative size or degree of difference between the items measured.
1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc |
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Quantitative attributes are all measurable on interval scales, as any difference between the levels of an attribute can be multiplied by any real number to exceed or equal another difference. Zero is an arbitrary point and division/multiplication of values is meaningless
Celsius/farenheit |
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