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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Unequivocal
Second
Anaphora
(Argument of ) General probability
2. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Exergasia
Unrepresentative Sample
Formal Debate
Informal Debate
3. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Modus Ponens
(Fallacy of) Accident
False Charge of Fallacy
Good Will (Ethos)
4. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Composition
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Unsound
5. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Hyperbole
(Argument of ) General probability
Tu Quoque
Value-Oriented Arguments
6. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Accident
Composition
Anadiplosis
Anaphora
7. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Litotes
Correctio
Decorum
Appeal to Authority
8. Ask a rhetorical question
Arguments
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Erotema
9. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Testimony
Antithesis
(Argument of ) General probability
Popular Democracy
10. The inference moves from specific to general or from general to specific. The warrant to this argument usually reads 'what is true in this case is true in general' or 'what is true in general is true in this case'
(Argument by) Example
Value Hierarchies
Informal Debate
Unrepresentative Sample
11. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Epanalepsis
Epanalepsis
Checking for Example argument
Unrepresentative Sample
12. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
(Fallacy of) Accident
Modus Tollens
Second (or) Third
Conjectural (Stasis)
13. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Composition
Euphimism
Narrative
Popular Democracy
14. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Hyperbole
Mercenary Scientists
Term I/Term II
15. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Loci of the Preferable
Tokenism
Refutation
Categorical (Syllogism)
16. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population
Burden of Rejoinder
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Intelligence
Small Sample
17. Reasoning from case to case
Appeal to Ignorance
Corax
Unrepresentative Sample
Analogy
18. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Epanalepsis
Locus of Existence
(Argument by) Analogy
Appeal to Authority
19. Opposite of Anaphora
Epistrophe
Epanalepsis
Unsound
Cost
20. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Litotes
Example
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Sound
21. Ideas repeated
Anadiplosis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Erotema
Exergasia
22. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)
Structural (inherency)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Fallacy Fallacy
Fallacies
23. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Hyperbole
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Hyperbole
Argument
24. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Procedural (Stasis)
Unequivocal
Aristotle
Narrative
25. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Enthymeme
Prolepsis
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Common Practice (Fallacy)
26. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Simile
Appeal to Authority
Parallelism
Categorical (Syllogism)
27. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Stasis
Anadiplosis
Analogy
(Argument from) Cause
28. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Qualitative (Stasis)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Anaphora
Plato
29. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
(Special Topoi for) Science
Non Sequitur
Appeal to Authority
Checking for Example argument
30. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Disassociation of Concepts
Locus of Quantity
Intelligence
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
31. Ending repeated
Procedural (Stasis)
Epistrophe
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Ethos
32. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Blame
Anadiplosis
Correctio
Vehicle (and) Tenor
33. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Categorical (Syllogism)
(Argument of ) General probability
Informal Debate
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
34. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Arguments
Anadiplosis
Checking for Testimony argument
Blame
35. A manufactured controversy that is motivated by profit or extreme ideology to intentionally create confusion in the public about an issue of scientific fact that is not in dispute by the scientific community. Used to stop debate at the conjectural le
Antithesis
Anadiplosis
Manufactroversy
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
36. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Value Hierarchies
Gorgias
Situationally flawed
Non Sequitur
37. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Procedural (Stasis)
Composition
Sophist
38. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Tokenism
Manufactroversy
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Mixed Metaphor
39. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Stock Issues
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
40. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Tu Quoque
Straw Person
False Dichotomy
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
41. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Sign
Stock Issues
Locus of Quality
Erotema
42. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Incrementum
Valid
Epistrophe
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
43. Deliberate correction
Locus of Quantity
Rhetoric
Correctio
(Fallacy of) Accident
44. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true
Exergasia
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Unequivocal
Fallacy Fallacy
45. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Locus of Quality
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Formal Debate
Hyperbole
46. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares
Unrepresentative Sample
Loci of the Preferable
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Enthymeme
47. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Refutation
Gorgias
Euphimism
48. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Begging the Question
Incrementum
Euphimism
Enthymeme
49. Can the sign be found without the thing for which it stands? Is an alternative explanation of the maning of the sign more credible? Are there countering signs that indicate that his one sign is false?
Checking for Sign argument
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Second
Deductive Reasoning
50. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Tokenism
Appeal to Authority
Conceding Arguments