Note: This guide is not guaranteed to contain a complete list of everything that may be on the test. You are responsible for reading and learning all the concepts and skills assigned on the syllabus readings and discussed in class. This guide will help you substantially, but you should still review your class notes, reading notes, and the readings themselves.
For each concept below, you should be able to define it and identify it as used in a context. Some questions will ask you to apply your knowledge of these concepts.
The test will contain approximately 50 multiple-choice questions. Bring a Scantron 882 and pencil to the test.
Love Your God with All Your Mind
- Relationship between faith and reason
- Impact of anti-intellectualism on Christianity
- Secularism as a view about knowledge
- What is an “objectively true proposition”?
- Three traits of a belief
- Plausibility structures
- Empty self
- Study as a spiritual discipline
- Methodism versus particularism
- Rebut versus refute
- Scientism
- The reformer’s dilemma
- Aristotle on friendship
Integration article
- Relation between faith and learning
- Implications of integrated life
- Problems without integration
Induction and Deduction
- Define and know differences
- Drawbacks or problems of each
- Strengths of each
Fallacies of Induction
- accident (exception to rule)
- dicto simpliciter (sweeping generalization)
- hasty generalization (insufficient evidence)
- suppressed quantification
- false cause
- causal reduction
- sufficient cause
- necessary cause
- contributory cause
- non sequitur
The above sections will be covered by approximately one question per item listed, for a total of about 25 or 26 questions.
Hypothetical Syllogisms
- conditional
- disjunctive
- conjunctive
- See the several online quizzes for examples
There will be approximately 24 hypothetical syllogisms, including a dozen conditional, and six each disjunctive and conjunctive.
Remember that you may use a one-page, one-sided sheet of notes containing any material you wish in any font size or hand printed as you wish. Keep a copy because you will turn in the notes page with your test.
Hints
Indicators of conditional syllogism: if, when, whenever, on the condition that, should that occur, etc.
Indicators of disjunctive: either, or, the only possibilities are this and that, must be one of these, etc.
Indicators of conjunctive: cannot both be, impossible for it to be both, cannot occur at the same time, mutually exclusive, etc.
Indicators of operator: because, since, for the reason that, the reason is, etc.
Indicators of conclusion: so, thus, therefore, we can conclude, as a result, as a consequence, it follows that, etc.