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Critical Reasoning quiz

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Which error causes an arguer to commit a hasty generalization?

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  1. 1 Easy

    What error treats correlation as proof of causation?

    Answer: Assuming association implies cause

    Why: Children's shoe size and reading skill rise together, but age is the hidden factor behind both.

  2. 2 Medium

    What term describes a logical statement that is always true?

    Answer: Tautology

    Why: Because a tautology is universally true, negating it always produces a logical contradiction.

  3. 3 Hard

    Which logic principle says any statement follows from a contradiction?

    Answer: Principle of explosion

    Why: Because a contradiction makes every proposition provable, paraconsistent logics were developed to tolerate localized contradictions.

  4. 4 Easy

    Which fallacy misrepresents an opponent's argument to refute it easily?

    Answer: Straw man

    Why: Unlike a red herring which diverts attention to another issue, a straw man specifically distorts the original position.

  5. 5 Medium

    In propositional logic, which rule infers Q from 'if P then Q' and P?

    Answer: Modus ponens

    Why: While modus ponens affirms the antecedent to confirm the consequent, modus tollens denies the consequent to deny the antecedent.

  6. 6 Hard

    What did Karl Popper say separates science from pseudoscience?

    Answer: Falsifiability

    Why: Falsifiability demands that a scientific theory make specific predictions that could conceivably be shown false by observation.

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