Exercise 8

What is Deductive Reasoning?

relating reasoning, thinking about reasons.

Exercise 7

Induction: an initial experience
Reasoning: to take part in conversation, discussion, or argument
Empirical: relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory
scientific method: principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses

Exercise 6

Viewpoints: standpoint
point of view
attitude: the arrangement of the parts of a body or figure
Bias: the arrangement of the parts of a body or figure
Perspective: the arrangement of the parts of a body or figure
Opinion: the arrangement of the parts of a body or figure

Exercise 5

Judge: to form an opinion about through careful weighing of evidence and testing of premises
Appraise: to set a value on
Estimate: to judge tentatively or approximately the value, worth, or significance of
Value: a fair return or equivalent in goods, services, or money for something exchanged
Evaluate: to determine or fix the value of

Exercises 4

What is an Assumption?

first meaning
the quality of being actual

Second meaning
a taking to or upon oneself


Third meaning
the act of laying claim to or taking possession of something

Exercise 3

Your neighbors have regular habits and spend a lot of time at home. In an airport waiting room, you sit down next to a nun wearing a dark blue dress, starched white hearddress. Your child age four usually has a good appetite. You are looking in your wife's closet for your mising shoe, and you notice a new and expensive man's sport jacket hanging there.

Exercise 2

To Know: to perceive directly
certain: of a specific but unspecified character, quantity, or degree
Verified: to confirm or substantiate in law by oath
Existence: reality as opposed to appearance
Real: of or relating to fixed, permanent, or immovable things
Fact: the quality of being actual