Global Midterm

2. Making ideas and one's reasoning easier to understand by explaining the main points while avoiding ambiguities and confusions
3. Sometimes people imply unspoken truths, claims, or inferences, by the words or phrases they use
6. Expressing facts or truths, free from errors or distortion
8. the appeal to emotions of the audience.
9. In a simplistic sense, it is to disagree or verbally fight about something. In critical thinking, it is to give reasons for or against a proposal, position or conclusion
10. An error in reasoning or in an argument, which is misleading and deceptive, whether intentional or not.
13. the appeal to logic
15. A system of principles or rules used in reasoning, rational explanation and justification
17. committed by arguments that reason that because the last link in the chain is unde-sirable, the first link isequally undesirable.
20. To determine the value of an idea or thing, or the relevance of a fact

1. If the conclusion of an argument is also one of its reasons, then the argument is…
2. An objective analysis and evaluation of an idea or belief
4. A favoring or preference or inclination for selecting (or choosing one thing over other alternatives
5. An argument thatrests on contradictory claims must therefore rest on at least one false claim, and argu-ments that rest on false claims prove nothing.
7. Facts, statistics, or information from which conclusions can be inferred, or upon which interpretations or theories can be based
11. A sentence having two or more possible meanings
12. Clearly, precisely and accurately stated, and without intentionally hiding information or purposes
14. Arguments often use specific cases to support general conclusions.
16. An idea, a generalization, a class of objects, the meaning or definition of a word.
18. the guiding beliefs of a person or group.
19. arguments are arguments that misrepresent a position in order to refute it.