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Enter the number from the column to the left into the text box next to the appropriate word in the right-hand column.

1. the study and practice of persuasion		fact
2. something considered to be true, but which has not been proven		open-mindedness
3. the amount of trust a person places in a source of hearsay		credibility
4. gather data, then arrive at conclusions based on that data; create a hypothesis, then test that hypothesis		skepticism
5. something that someone else states to be true, but which you yourself don't know to be true		hearsay
6. the study and technique of classification		logic
7. the study of how we know what we know		rhetoric
8. the study of reasoning		belief
9. the unwillingness to automatically accept that something is true		taxonomy
10. an explanation for a set of facts		theory
11. the willingness to consider new ideas		hypothesis
12. something known by evidence or by logic to be true		epistemology
13. an educated guess, the truth of which is usually intended to be tested		scientific methods