AICE Thinking Skills Vocabulary

3. A premise leads to a conclusion which in turn, is used as a premise for a further conclusion. This pattern may be repeated.
5. A type of reasoning whereby the conclusion that is reached is necessarily true, either by definition or by virtue of the facts.
8. A justified premise is one that is believed to have a strong grounding in the truth.
10. Two or more theories trying o explain the same aspect of the natural world.
11. Only one premise is needed to logically arrive at a conclusion.
12. Our best attempt to explain something in the natural world, based on what we currently know.
13. The proof (facts, experimental, results, observations that supports an argument).
14. Two or more lines of argument arrive independently at the same conclusion.
15. A prediction based on a theory, which can be verified as being either correct or incorrect.
17. Reason or logic is a process of applying critical thought to a set of premises to arrive at the most reasonable conclusion.
18. A set of logical statements, leading to a fair conclusion, with reasons offered to support the conclusion.

1. An argument that is deemed to have consistently strong reasoning throughout.
2. A propositional statement upon which an argument is based or from which conclusion is drawn.
3. A reasoned inference or deduction that follows from the logic of an argument.
4. A type of reasoning whereby a conclusion is reached by drawing on implications of the premise. Can never be proved beyond all doubt.
6. Something which can be demonstrated to be true.
7. Something that is believed to be true by the speaker, but which may or may not be shared by others.
9. A conclusion that is used as a premise in a continuing line of argumentation.
11. Two or more premises are needed to work in conjunction with each other to logically arrive at a conclusion.
16. Something that is held to be true, but which has not been, or cannot be, actually demonstrated to be true.