HUM115 - Week 1 Assessment

Fairmindedness entails the predisposition to consider all relevant viewpoints equally, without reference to one’s own feelings or selfish interests, or the feelings or selfish interests of one’s friends, community, or nation. It implies adherence to intellectual standards (such as accuracy, sound logic, and breadth of vision), uninfluenced by one’s own advantage or the advantage of one’s group. 

• True
• False

The opposite of fairmindedness is intellectual fairness.  

• True
• False

The opposite of intellectual humility is intellectual arrogance.

• True
• False

What is sophistry? 

• An artist who draws paintings. For example: Van Gogh or Picasso
• A musician who writes or sings music.
• It is the art of winning arguments regardless of whether there are problems in the thinking being used, regardless of whether relevant viewpoints are being ignored. The objective in sophistic thinking is to win. 
• The Art of Science for testing hypothesis and theories.