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RANDOM SAMPLING
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equal chance
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SLANTED QUESTION
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ELICIT A PARTICULAR RESPONSE
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PUSH POLL
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PRESENTING POLLISTERS VIEWS
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LOADED QUESTION
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A FALLACY
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ANALOGY
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A COMPARISON
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METAPHOR
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FOUND IN LITERATURE
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CAUSE
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EVENT
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CASUAL ARGUMENT
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IS OR IS NOT
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DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENT
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CONCLUSION NECESSARILY FOLLOWS FROM PREMISES
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POLL
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SURVEY
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SAMPLING
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SELECTING
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REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE
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LARGE POPULATION
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CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT
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RANDOMLY DIVIDED INTO A CONTROL GROUP
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SYLLOGISM
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TWO SUPPORTING PREMISSES AND A CONCLUSION
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VALID
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CONCLUSION MUST BE TRUE IF THE PREMISES ARE ASSUMED TO BE TRUE
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FORM
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PATTERN OF REASONING
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SOUND
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ARUMENT BY ELIMINATION
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DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES UNTIL ONLY ONE REMAINS
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DISJUNCTIVE SYLLOGISM
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ONLY TWO ALTERNATIVES
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ARGUMENT BASED ON MATHEMATICS
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MATHEMATICAL CALCULATION
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ARGUMENT FROM DEFINITION
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TRUE BASE4D ON KEY TERM
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MODUS PONENS
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AFFIRMING THE ANTECEDENT
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CHAIN ARGUMENTS
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THREE OR MORE CONDITIONAL PREMISES LINKED TOGETHER
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MODUSTOLLENS
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ANTECEDENT PREMISES IS DENIED
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HYPOTHETICAL SYLLOGISM
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CONTAINS TWO PREMISES AND AFFIRMED BY CONSEQUENCE PREMISES
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GENERALIZATION
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DRAWING A CONCLUSION
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CHAIN ARGUMENTS
Definition
A type of hypothetical argument with three or more condiional premises linked together
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POLL
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A type of survey tht involves collecting information from a sample group of people
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ANALOGY
Definition
A comparison between two or more similar events or things
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ARGUMENTS BASED ON MATHEMATICS
Definition
A deductive argument in which the conclusion depends on a mathematical calculation
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SYLLOGISM
Definition
A deductive argument presented in the form of two supporting premises and a conclusion
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HYPOTHETICAL SYLLOGISM
Definition
A deductive argument that contains two premises is affirmed by the consequence premises
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SOUND
Definition
A deductive argument that is valid and that has true premises
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ARGUMENT BY ELIMINATION
Definition
A deductive argument that rules out different possibilities and only one remains
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VALID
Definition
A deductive argument where the form is such that the conclusio must be true if the premises are assumed to be true
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METAPHOR
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A descriptive type of anolgy frequently fund in literature
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LOADED QUESTION
Definition
A fallacy that assumes a particular answer to another unasked question
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MODUSTOLLENS
Definition
A hypotheticalsygollism in which the antecedent premises is denied by the consequent premises
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PUSH POLL
Definition
A pull that starts by presenting the pollsters views before asking for a response
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SLANTED QUESTION
Definition
A question that is written to elicit a particular response
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MODUS PONENS
Definition
Affirming the antecedant
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CASUAL ARGUMENT
Definition
An argument tht claims if something is or is not the claim of something else
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CAUSE
Definition
An event that brings about a change or effecg
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DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENT
Definition
Arguments that claims their conclusion necesarily follows from the premises
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ARGUMENT BY DEFINITION
Definition
Deductive argument in which conclusion is rue because it is based on key erm in a definition
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GENERALIZATION
Definition
Drawing a conclusion about a certain characteristics of a population based on a sample from it
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RANDOM SAMPLING
Definition
Every member of population has an equal chance of becoming part of the sample
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SAMPLING
Definition
Selecting some problems of a group and making generalizartion
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FORM
Definition
Pattern of reasoning in a deductive arument
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REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE
Definition
a sample that is similar to the larger population from which it was drawn
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CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT
Definition
An experiment in which that sample is randomly divided into an experimental and a control group
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