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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Equivocation
Toulmin Model
Popular Democracy
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
2. After this - therefore on account of this
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Cost
(Argument from) Sign
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
3. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'
Decision Rules
Hasty Generalization
Ad Hominem
(Argument by) Example
4. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Hyperbole
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Simile
(Argument from) Sign
5. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Ad Hominem
Checking for Analogy argument
Sign
6. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Litotes
Questionable Cause
Associated Commonplaces
Emotionally Charged (Language)
7. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Appeal to Authority
Stasis
Debate Resolutions
Corax
8. beginning repeated at ending
Epanalepsis
Conceding Arguments
Aristotle
Anadiplosis
9. Ask a rhetorical question
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Litotes
Erotema
Deductive Reasoning
10. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Checking for Sign argument
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument from) Testimony
(Argument from) Cause
11. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Division
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Stock Issues
Anaphora
12. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Stasis
Appeal to Authority
Turn
13. Opposite of Epistrophe
Appeal to Authority
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Anaphora
14. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Isocrates
Ambiguity
Agree on Commonality then refute
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
15. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Grounds (or data)
Questionable Cause
Appeal to Ignorance
16. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Fallacies
(Argument of ) General probability
Toulmin Model
Litotes
17. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
Enthymeme
Tisias
Qualitative (Stasis)
18. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Checking for Testimony argument
(Fallacy of) Accident
Refutation Potential
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
19. 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
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Antithesis
Burden of Rejoinder
20. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Unequivocal
Toulmin Model
Mixed Metaphor
Archetypal (Metaphor)
21. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Rhetoric
Consistency
Metaphor
Composition
22. 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
Situationally flawed
Rhetoric
Checking for Sign argument
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
23. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Epanalepsis
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Ill
Grounds (or data)
24. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Anaphora
Enthymeme
Arguments
Charisma
25. Term with lower (negative) value
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Associated Commonplaces
Metaphor
26. Beginning repeated
Attitudinal (inherency)
Associated Commonplaces
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Anaphora
27. 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'
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
(Argument by) Example
Plato
Second
28. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Structural (inherency)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Cliche
Situationally flawed
29. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Testimony
Cliche
Hyperbole
30. If A then B B Therefore - A
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Appeal to Ignorance
Protagoras
31. Structure repeated
Correctio
Sophist
Appeal to Authority
Parallelism
32. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Antithesis
Correctio
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Stasis
33. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B
Categorical (Syllogism)
Locus of Existence
Informal Debate
Syllogism
34. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Division
Ill
Epistrophe
Red Herring
35. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Antithesis
Ambiguity
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Value-Oriented Arguments
36. Ideas repeated
Sophist
Situationally flawed
Exergasia
Ad Populum
37. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
(Argument from) Testimony
Formal Logic
Metaphor
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
38. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Stock Issues
Presumption
Hasty Generalization
Valid
39. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Anadiplosis
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
40. 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)
Mercenary Scientists
Value Hierarchies
Modus Tollens
Fallacy Fallacy
41. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Stasis
Locus of Quality
Antithesis
Tu Quoque
42. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Prolepsis
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Charisma
Vehicle (and) Tenor
43. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Analogy
Charisma
Mixed Metaphor
Blame
44. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Parallelism
Consistency
Epistrophe
Shifting the Burden of Proof
45. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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46. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Epistrophe
Personification
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
47. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Refutation Strategies
Enthymeme
Appeal to Authority
Tu Quoque
48. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Loci of the Preferable
(Argument of ) General probability
Turn
Intelligence
49. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Antithesis
(Argument by) Analogy
Procedural (Stasis)
Value-Oriented Arguments
50. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Sound
Stock Issues
Composition
Erotema
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