Critical Thinking - Assignment 1

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NAME:VISALI D/O MOGAN
STUDENT ID:KSU_111942000
SUBJECT NAME/SUBJECT CODE: CRITICAL THINKING FA1144

HONOUR CODE:
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reference are made to the authorized material only. I affirm that all work will be my own.

Question Answer Marks

Number

1 Argument is a reason or set of reasons given in

support of an idea, action or theory.

2a Quantifiers used for soft generalisation are some,

usually and generally.

2b She put some flour and some sugar in the glass

container.

2c Quantifiers used for hard generalisation are all ,

always and none.

2d Every country has its own rules and regulations.

3 Intermediate conclusion are statements supported

by evidence and used to support the main
conclusion.

4 Premises and conclusion.

5 Lexical ambiguity is the presence of two or more

possible meanings for a single word. It differs from
syntactic ambiguity, which is the presence of two
or more possible meanings within a sentence or
sequence of words.

6a Hard shell and scare quotes.

6b Hard shell usually expressed in short and simple

slogans while scare quotes means of influencing
opinion against an opposing view.

7a Deductive validity is an argument where it's not

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possible for it to be the case that both all of its

premises are true and it's conclusion is false, as it
were, at the same time.

7b Deductive soundness is an argument which is

sound if it is valid and its premises are true.

8a An inductive argument is said to be inductively

forceful if the probability of the conclusion being
true is higher than the probability of it being false.

8b An inductive argument is sound or cogent if it is

inductively forceful and all the premises are
actually true.

9a Haley is in love with Tim.

9b She will do anything for him.

9c If Haley is not in love with Tim , then she will not do

anything for him.

9d P1) If Haley is not in love with Tim ,she will not do

anything for him.
P2)She will not do anything for him
C :Haley is not in love with Tim.

10a It is not deductively valid because there is no 2nd

explicit premise which indicates that all goats eat
grass.

10b It is inductively forceful because all its premises

were true, then it its highly likely or probable that
its conclusion would also true.

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