2019.11.

18 II

Critical Thinking Test

1. You have the following terms. Offer the visual representation that best describes the relations
between them: (1 point)
a. birds, snakes, animals, living beings;
b. Romanians, Russians, gays, Orthodox.
c. conservatives, liberals, women, athletes, entities.

2. You have the following visual representations. Offer examples of terms and form sentences with
those terms to fit the visual representations: (1 point)

A C
a.
F
B C A
b.
D
B

3. You have the following claim:

No nostalgic person should be allowed to vote.

a. Formulate a valid syllogism that uses that claim as a conclusion. (0.5 points)
b. Formulate a valid syllogism that uses that claim as a premise. (0.5 points)
c. State your own opinion in a form of valid deductive reasoning. (0.5 points)

4. You have the following sentence:

'Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but all stupid people are conservatives.' (John Stuart Mill 1806-1873)

a. Offer a visual representation to describe the relation between ”conservatives” and ”stupid people” (0.5
point5)
b. Formulate your own opinion offering at least three premises to support your idea. (2 points)
c. Fomulate a syllogism of the type Celaront that has the following conclusion: Some conservatives are
not stupid people.(1.5 points)

5. Consider the following dialogue:

- I do not support a possible US military intervention in Venezuela!

- Then, you are supporting the cruel dictator Marudo (leader of Venezuela).

Analyze this dialogue an establish what is the missing premise here. Analyze this argument by formulating
syllogisms that capture the reasoning and also formulate your on opinion on this subject. (1.5 points)