AICE thinking skills - important definitions

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Across
  1. 4. a piece of unspoken reasoning, occurring between the reasons and conclusions, that is required to be true for the conclusion to be validly drawn
  2. 7. a _________ fallacy tries to misrepresent or simplify an argument to make it easier to knock down
  3. 11. the E in RAVEN; credibility of evidence is impacted by this quality of the source
  4. 12. the representativeness of a sample can be affected if the method of ____ sways results
  5. 13. the combination of examples, evidence and logical elements that are used to support the conclusion
  6. 16. between reasons and the main conclusion, an argument may rely on one or more _______ intermediate conclusions
  7. 17. when two pieces of evidence contradict one another, you may have this weakness
  8. 18. a _________ question contains an assumption that appears to be validated if the respondent simply answers
  9. 19. a ____________ flaw suggests that just because an event happened after or at the same time as another, that it must be caused by the other
  10. 20. an ad ________ attack is a logical fallacy because it attacks the person, not the argument
Down
  1. 1. a characteristic of credibility, this is the intrinsic likelihood of a claim to be true
  2. 2. a _________ slope fallacy suggests that a moderate proposal will inevitably lead to disastrous consequences
  3. 3. the main claim being made, which is supported by reasons
  4. 4. a persuasive claim that includes a conclusion supported by reasons
  5. 5. when one piece of evidence is able to verify or support the truth of another
  6. 6. a claim that is made without being supported by evidence
  7. 8. a _______ or hasty generalization "jumps to conclusions" without adequate evidence
  8. 9. a _____________ argument uses the claim itself as evidence of its conclusion
  9. 10. the ____ of a sample is impacted by the number, selection, comparison to claim, and presentation of the examples
  10. 14. ____________ and conflation are fallacies that involve substituting an alternate meaning of a word or treating 2 words as is they are interchangeable
  11. 15. we use the acronym RAVEN in order to test 5 different aspects of how believable a source/evidence may be