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Assessing the Claim Quiz
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is the broad and vague collection of our general and specific beliefs about the world, typically arrived at through years of education and experience, and typically without our ability to say where it came from.
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is an inappropriate personal motive that casts doubts on one's own observations, the firsthand observations reported by someone else, or the claims of an expert.
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A(n) is a person who makes a claim that we thereby have good reason to accept. Most often, the cause of such persons' credibility is their knowledge.
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A(n) is a person with knowledge beyond that of educated laypersons on some specialized subject.
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is the agreement of a new informative claim with things we already have good reason to believe.
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is the immediate perception of a thing or event, which, other things being equal, produces the most solid grounds for accepting a claim.





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