Critical Reasoning quiz
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Which error causes an arguer to commit a hasty generalization?
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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.
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Which type of reasoning picks the best explanation from incomplete clues?
Answer: Abductive reasoning
Why: Charles Sanders Peirce put it this way: deduction proves what must be, induction shows what actually is, abduction only suggests what may be.
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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.
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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.
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Which fallacy occurs when an argument's premises assume its conclusion?
Answer: Begging the question
Why: Aristotle catalogued it first; the English name arose when a 16th-century translator read Latin petitio as 'beg' instead of 'assume'.
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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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