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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What vehicles and tenors share
First
Toulmin Model
Fallacy Fallacy
Associated Commonplaces
2. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.
Debate Resolutions
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Locus of Quantity
Aristotle
3. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Enthymeme
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
(Fallacy of) Accident
Popular Democracy
4. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Checking for Sign argument
Refutation Strategies
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Checking for Testimony argument
5. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Ad Populum
Epistrophe
Hasty Generalization
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
6. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Unrepresentative Sample
(Argument by) Analogy
Anadiplosis
7. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Non Sequitur
(Argument from) Cause
Special Topoi
Stock Issues
8. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Ad Hominem
False Dichotomy
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Disassociation of Concepts
9. Is necessary to defend the weak against the strong - Is useful and necessary to the state and the individual because you become a more thoughtful citizen and a more well-rounded person - Is useful to have the tools to recognize good arguments and def
Metaphor
Metaphor
Tu Quoque
Rhetoric
10. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
Appeal to Authority
Ill
Unrepresentative Sample
11. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.
Straw Person
Informal Debate
Fallacies
Modus Tollens
12. 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'
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Blame
Tu Quoque
(Fallacy of) Accident
13. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Formal Logic
Metaphor
Argument
Cost
14. The inference reasons that what a trustworthy source says is true. The warrant to this argument usually says - 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true'
(Argument from) Testimony
Mercenary Scientists
Cliche
Straw Person
15. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Parallelism
Tisias
16. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Analogy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Blame
17. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members
Hasty Generalization
Term I/Term II
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Vehicle (and) Tenor
18. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Refutation Potential
Definitional (Stasis)
Anaphora
Warrant
19. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Sign
Anadiplosis
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Checking for Narrative argument
20. 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.
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Appeal to Authority
Isocrates
21. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Antithesis
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Anadiplosis
22. 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
False Dichotomy
Prolepsis
Incrementum
Small Sample
23. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Tu Quoque
Metaphor
Structural (inherency)
Informal Debate
24. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Analogy
Epanalepsis
Composition
Exergasia
25. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Unsound
(Argument from) Cause
Attitudinal (inherency)
Appeal to Authority
26. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Small Sample
(Argument by) Example
Antithesis
Anadiplosis
27. Ideas repeated
Syllogism
Anaphora
Sophist
Exergasia
28. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Stock Issues
Metaphor
Protagoras
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
29. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Metaphor
Litotes
Checking for Cause argement
30. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Isocrates
Epanalepsis
Composition
Equivocation
31. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Checking for Example argument
Isocrates
Warrant
Categorical (Syllogism)
32. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo
Decision Rules
Composition
Syllogism
Prolepsis
33. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Good Will (Ethos)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Checking for Narrative argument
Corax
34. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Quantitative (significance)
Anaphora
Charisma
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
35. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Informal Debate
Questionable Cause
Euphimism
Antithesis
36. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Correctio
Warrant
Deductive Reasoning
Term I/Term II
37. Structure repeated
Parallelism
Tu Quoque
Rhetoric
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
38. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Appeal to Ignorance
Definitional (Stasis)
Litotes
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
39. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Erotema
Value-Oriented Arguments
Good Will (Ethos)
Isocrates
40. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
Associated Commonplaces
Tu Quoque
Metaphor
41. 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.
Warrant
Unrepresentative Sample
Term I/Term II
Appeal to Ignorance
42. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Blame
Term I/Term II
Hasty Generalization
Informal Debate
43. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Epanalepsis
Intelligence
Antithesis
Litotes
44. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Blame
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Definitional (Stasis)
Anaphora
45. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Antithesis
Parallelism
46. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Simile
Quantitative (significance)
Epanalepsis
47. If A then B A Therefore B
Tisias
Intelligence
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Modus Ponens
48. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
(Argument from) Sign
Anadiplosis
Checking for Sign argument
Decorum
49. 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'
Anadiplosis
(Argument from) Cause
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Refutation Strategies
50. 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
Structural (inherency)
Locus of Existence
Loci of the Preferable
Epistrophe