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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole






2. 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






3. An argument with true premises and valid form






4. Metaphors use ____ and ____






5. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.






6. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court






7. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?






8. 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.






9. 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'






10. 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






11. 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)






12. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals






13. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C






14. The list that builds






15. Opposite of Epistrophe






16. 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.






17. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success






18. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






19. Term with higher (positive) value






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






21. Deliberate correction






22. Circular Reasoning






23. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






24. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)






25. Opposite of Anaphora






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






27. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members






28. 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'






29. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'






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






31. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec






32. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'






33. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous






34. Structure repeated






35. Opposite of anadiplosis






36. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument






37. If A then B B Therefore - A






38. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'






39. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place






40. Term with lower (negative) value






41. Beginning repeated






42. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning






43. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






44. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike






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






46. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






47. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?






48. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?






49. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'






50. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.