Ch. 4 Credibility Flashcards
1
Q
A person who stands to gain from our belief in a claim
Interested parties must be viewed with much more suspicion than disinterested parties
A
Interest Party
2
Q
No stake in our belief one way or another
A
Disinterested Party
3
Q
Lacks credibility to the extent of our observation
- an assertion that something is the case
- -Can be true or false
- Declarative sentence can be used to express claim
A
Claims
4
Q
Quality of being believeable
A
Credibility
5
Q
Perspectivce of world plus the readiness to act accordingly
A
Belief
6
Q
Property supported by evidence or expensive or self-evident
A
Credible claim
7
Q
A matter of direct insight without need for other evidence
A
self-evident
8
Q
Can be asses by claim and source
A
Assessing credibility
