The tendency to think that a syllogism is valid if its conclusion is believable is called the .
a. availability heuristic
b. confirmatory bias
c. belief bias
d. mental set
Question 2
Consider the following syllogism: All of the students are tired. Some tired people are irritable. Some of the students are irritable. It is likely that most people will judge this syllogism as
a. invalid because of the influence of the atmosphere effect.
b. invalid because this syllogism does not involve a pragmatic reasoning schema.
c. valid because this is indeed a valid syllogism and the logic is apparent.
d. valid because this conclusion is believable.
Cnidarians have specialized stinging cells called cnidocytes
Persian leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica), also called Caucasian leopard
Earth’s history is divided into nested sets of time--eons, eras, periods, and epochs--and is called
Detonation is a secondary ignition of the air–fuel mixture. It is also called spark knock or ...
A square matrix P is called a permutation matrix if each row and column of P contains exactly ...
A commercially available DNA microarray, called a GeneChip, marketed by Affymetrix, Inc