Command Words AICE Thinking Skills

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What are the ways to assess the representativeness of evidence? Options: Number of samples, Selectivity, Witness to the clam, Presentation of data; Number of samples, Selectivity, Plausibility; Reliability, Selectivity, Plausibility, Presentation of data; Corroboration and consistency, Reliability, Selectivity

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Number of samples, Selectivity, Witness to the clam, Presentation of data

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What are the ways to Assess the credibility of evidence? Options: Reliability, Plausibility, Corroboration and consistency, –Corroboration and consistency, Selectivity, Plausibility, – Plausibility, Reputation, Expertise, – All of the Above

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Reliability, Plausibility, Corroboration and consistency

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What is concealing a step in reasoning by tacitly shifting from one meaning of a word of expression to another?

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Equivocation

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What is affirming the consequent or denying the antecedent?

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Invalid Deduction

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What is relying on a claim in order to prove it?

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Circular argument

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What is opposing an apparently moderate proposal by alleging that it will inevitably lead to disastrous consequences?

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Slippery Slope Argument

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What's concealing a step in reasoning by treating two words as if they were interchangeable when their meaning is different?

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Conflation

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What is interpreting a necessary condition as if it were sufficient or a sufficient condition as if it were necessary?

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Confusion of necessary and sufficient conditions

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What is misrepresenting opponents arguments in order to respond to them more easily?

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Straw man argument

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What is criticizing opponents personally instead of responding to their arguments?

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Personal attack