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Ockam's Razor is the principle that states

All things being equal The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

An argument that draws a conclusion about one object or event is.

An argument from analogy.

Claim in the in the form of hearsay are considered. Anecdotal

Anecdotal

No report of extraterrestrial visitation has been substantiated, therefore there are no true cases of evolution.

Appeal to ignorance

One sign of pseudo-scientific investigation is an attempt to explain a mysterious phenomena by.

Appealing to another equally or more mysterious phenomena.

When phenomena observed are more limited and restricted than what you would expect if the hypothesis were true.

Argument from unwarranted design.

The tendency to rely only on evidence which is vivid and memorable instead of reliable or trustworthy.

Availability error

If one intentionally ignores evidence that can disprove one's belief then it is known.

Cherry piking

The tendency to look exclusively for evidence that confirms our own views.

Conformation bias

Failure to realize that the probability of two events occurring together is less than the probability of one of them occurring alone.

Conjunction fallacy

To make a judgment about a group of things based on anecdotal evidence concerning only a few members of that group.

Fallacy of Hasty Generalization

Either this house is being haunted by several ghosts or there is some historical event replaying over and over again in this place.

False Dilemma

Rob is unemployed. Only unemployed people are lazy. Therefore, Rob is lazy.

Invalid

Hume's Fork refers to two realms of inquiry that Hume believed were open to meaningful and worthwhile investigation.

Matters of fact and relation of ideas

Ninety percent of my clients are well educated professionals.

Meaningless statistic

Crime and alienation has been on the rise during the twentieth century and so has belief in the theory of evolution. This makes it obvious that the theory of evolution has created a moral crisis.

Post Hoc error

The belief knowledge requires certainty is a part of .

Pyrrhonain skepticism

Some-sex marriage will lead to interspace marriage.

Slippery slope fallacy

If a claim is considered extraordinary then.

The evidence required to justify the claim must be of a higher quality than otherwise necessary of non-extraordinary claim.

The more reasonably justified background information a proposition conflict with

The more reason there is to doubt it.

Anecdotal claims or observation may provide a reason to conduct a scientific investigation but should never count as supporting evidence.

True

Anecdotal claims tend to play a very large role in the formation of conspiracy theories.

True

If a claim should be regarded as extraordinary if it conflicts with well established information and/or the cost of being mistaken about the claim could lead to disaster.

True

It is never appropriated to explain one extraordinary event with another extraordinary event.

True

There are nine million rats in New York City.

Unknowable statistic

Uri Geller claim to be able to bend spoons with the power of this mind.

Unwarranted design.

Rob is unemployed. All unemployed people are lazy. Therefore, Rob is lazy.

Valid

Valuable objects were absent from the house. Either someone was hiding them or it was the result of a burglary. Nobody was hiding them. So it must have been a burglary.

Valid

As practicing dental hygienist, I can assure that adding fluoride to our drinking water will cause serious mental illness.

Weak appeal to authority.

A recent poll indicates that 90% of Americans believe in angles. Therefore, angles must exist.

Weak inductive argument.

For a correct belief to count as knowledge we should have

Well established supporting reasons for our belief

Anecdotal evidence is another term for scientific evidence.

false

A proposition is a statement that

is either true or false

We have good reason to be skeptical of our own or another's experience if it is reasonable to believe that some peculiarity of the mind like constructive perception could be at work, or the conclusion is at adds with all known previous experience or.

it is uncorroborated.

Dose a correct belief guarantee knowledge of a certain matter.

no

Dose the correlation of two events guarantee a cause and effect relationship between the two events.

no

When people perceive an object to be certain size or color because they know or think they know what size or color the object is supposed to be, it is an example of.

perceptual constancy.

Constructive perception is

the mental process of constructing what you perceive to be reality from incomplete data.


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