As Part of Critical Thinking, the Deliberate Attempt to Uncover

question 415

Multiple Choice

As part of critical thinking, the deliberate attempt to uncover how a commonsense belief or scientific theory might be false is called

• A)falsification.
• B)introspection.
• C)confirmation bias.
• D)uncritical acceptance.

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