Thinking Skills Vocab Review

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Across
  1. 3. One's belief that cannot be proven.
  2. 5. Giving something weight or value; saying something is better than another.
  3. 9. When we think about our own thinking.
  4. 10. Giving deep or serious concentrated thought to something.
  5. 11. Something that has proven to be true.
  6. 12. Can be facts, beliefs, or observations that we use to formulate a conclusion
  7. 14. Reason or reasons leading to a conclusion.
Down
  1. 1. A claim made to rebut a previous claim.
  2. 2. an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument.
  3. 4. Proving an argument wrong.
  4. 6. describes the structure of an argument that guarantees that if the reasons are true then the conclusion will never be false.
  5. 7. A reason given for suggesting or advising for or against something.
  6. 8. The process by which we draw a conclusion or reach a decision based on strengths of reasons.
  7. 13. A description word identifying an argument as reliable and free of faults