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Subject : soft-skills
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1. If A then B B Therefore - A






2. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?






3. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)






4. The list that builds






5. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.






6. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)






7. Oppostite of Litotes






8. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.






9. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.






10. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






11. Term with higher (positive) value






12. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






13. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole






14. An argument with true premises and valid form






15. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.






16. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.






17. Structure repeated






18. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:






19. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.






20. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones






21. Ideas repeated






22. '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?






23. Who developed the argument from general probability?






24. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.






25. Opposite of Anaphora






26. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C






27. Appeals from the character of the speaker






28. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity






29. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument






30. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument






31. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti






32. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses






33. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.






34. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry






35. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






36. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)






37. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth






38. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises






39. 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






40. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective






41. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






42. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






43. Good Moral Character






44. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.






45. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'






46. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.






47. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'






48. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)






49. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






50. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?







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