Intro to Logic
Across
- 1. Tries to explain something already accepted as true
- 3. Something that is true for everyone
- 7. The explanation is the best educated guess
- 9. A mistake in reasoning that makes an argument weak
- 10. When someone attacks the person rather than their idea
- 11. When someone says an idea must be true or good just because a lot of people believe it or do it
- 14. The explanation you give to connect evidence to a claim
- 16. When someone tries to win an argument by making people feel something without facts or evidence
Down
- 2. Tries to persuade someone that something is true
- 4. Arguments that compare two things that are similar
- 5. The conclusion is probable or likely, but not certain
- 6. When someone twists another person’s words to make their idea sound worse or easier to argue against
- 8. When we assume that something true in some ways or of some people is true in all ways or for all people
- 12. If the premises are true, the conclusion HAS TO be true
- 13. When we pretend there are only two choices in a situation
- 15. Something that is true sometimes