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Critical Thinking Challenge

Test your reasoning skills and capacity for critical analysis with our engaging quiz on critical thinking! This quiz covers a variety of topics including inductive and deductive reasoning, reference classes, syllogisms, and argument evaluation.

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. An inductive conclusion has

One possible truth value, I.e., false

One possible truth value, I.e., true

Two possible truth values, I.e., true or false

No possible truth value

What is the reference class of the expression, "All the students who were arrested for extorting money from passengers have been put before the court of law and have been found guilty"?

All the students who were arrested

Have been found guilty

All the students who were arrested for extorting money from passengers

Have been put before the court of law and have been found guilty

Those famous gangsters who come from the eastern part of the country are deadly in their operations." What is the reference class of the preceding statement?

Those gangsters

Those gangsters who come from the eastern

Those gangsters who come from the eastern part of the country are deadly

Those gangsters who come from the eastern part of the country

The falsifiability of a statement refers to the tendency of a statement to be

Necessarily true

Necessarily false

Probably false

Neither true nor false

. Identify the missing premise of the syllogistic argument, "...............................................; But the earth does not revolve around the sun; Therefore, the sun revolves around the earth.

Some suns revolve around the earth

The earth revolves around itself

. Either the earth revolves around the sun or the sun revolves around the earth

Either the sun is too big or the earth is too big

The argument, "Most students of Accra Polytechnic watch videos every weekend, so most Ghanaian students probably watch videos every weekend." is.....................

Deductive

Inductive

General

Particular

Identify the attribute class of the sentence, "All the technicians who attended the President’s birthday party pledged an amount of twenty thousand Ghana cedis each to President’s Needy Fund"

All the technicians who attended the President's birthday party

All the technicians

Pledged an amount of twenty thousand Ghana cedis each to the President's Needy Fund

The President's Needy Fund

The following set of statements "I have met hundred mechanics who are all called Kofi and they are hardworking. Therefore, all mechanics who are called Kofi are hardworking." Is

Deductive

Inductive

Syllogism

Enthymeme

A deductive argument is appropriately defined as...........................................

A type of passage that moves from a particular statement to a general conclusion

. A type of passage that moves from a general premise(s) a particular conclusion

A type of passage that involves a logical inference from conclusion to a premise(s)

A type of passage that involves a logical inference from a premise(s) to a conclusion

. Identify the missing premise of the syllogism, "Because I am a girl; So, I do not get a gun."

Girls do not get guns

Girls are good fighters with their hands

Guns are dangerous for girls

Guns are scarce

The argument, "Accra is bigger than Kumasi; Kumasi is bigger than Sunyani. So Accra is bigger than Sunyani," is Invalid.

True

False

When the premises of an argument provide reason to believe its conclusion to be probably true, then, the argument is.......................

Sound

Valid

Inductive

True

What does "premise(s)" in the definition, "An argument is a type of passage that comprises premise(s) and a conclusion" imply?

That every argument must have multiple premises

That every argument must have only one premise

That every argument must have no premise

That every argument has one or multiple premises

When a sentence is used as a basis for accepting another, the one used as a basis is referred to as..............................................

Premise

Conclusion

True sentence

Antecedent

. Identify the option that cannot be subjected to logical analysis or critical evaluation from our discussions?

UG’s assessment of the e-learning

She is an adorable lecturer

The hen also knows when the sun rises but it is the cock that crows

. All the given options can be subjected to logical analysis or critical evaluation

. Which of the following options provides a valid conclusion to the argument “A person should not be judged guilty of murder if he was certified as insane at the time of the act of killing another person. The court has accepted the doctor’s certification of Bob’s insanity at the time of killing. Therefore ……………………….

. Bob should be judged guilty of the crime

Bob should not be judged guilty of the crime

All of the above

None of the above

Identify the missing premise in the following syllogism: ………………………………………………………………………… Hunting innocent people is wrong. Therefore, drunk driving is wrong

Hunting innocent people is wrong

Drunk driving is hunting innocent people

Hunting innocent people is drunk driving

If you drink you will cause accident

Statement of fact is also referred to as.........................

Statement

Definition

Empirical statement

. What is the reference class of the statement “Obaa Yaa broke the plates kept on the table”

The plates kept on the table

The plates

Obaa Yaa

Obaa Yaa broke the plates

The attribute class of a statement is also referred to as ………..

Reference class

Subject term

Antecedent

Predicate term

A truth-value sentence that affirms or denies all or part of the members of its reference class is termed.............................................

Disjunctive statement

Conditional statement

Dislocated statement

Categorical statement

What is the conclusion of the passage, "Joyce’s baby will not be able of understanding thermodynamics, for no baby is capable of understanding thermodynamics, and Joyce is going to have a baby soon."

Joyce's baby will not be able of understanding thermodynamics

No baby is Joyce's baby

Every baby understands thermodynamics

No baby is capable of understanding Thermodynamics

. The type of reasoning where a person makes conclusions based on observations and patterns is called …………….

Deductive reasoning

Inductive reasoning

Hypotheical reasoning

Argument

Which of the following is an argument?

Araba is a beautician who trained at the prestigious London Beauty Clinic.

Bukum Banku is also called Braimah kamoko.

Kofi stole the phone because he was the first to enter the room.

None of the above

Everyone who gets good grades has a computer. I don't have a computer. That is why my results are so poor that I have been put on probation.

A hypothetical syllogism

Modus tollens

Modus ponens

Appeal to threat

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