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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Conceding Arguments
Emotionally Charged (Language)
First
Testimony
2. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Sound
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Appeal to Authority
Exergasia
3. Opposite of anadiplosis
Deductive Reasoning
Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
Formal Debate
4. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Checking for Sign argument
(Argument by) Example
Anadiplosis
(Argument of ) General probability
5. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Correctio
Anaphora
Anaphora
Procedural (Stasis)
6. Deliberate correction
Correctio
Division
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Incrementum
7. Ask a rhetorical question
Isocrates
Good Moral Character
Erotema
Parallelism
8. 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?
Associated Commonplaces
Checking for Sign argument
(Argument from) Testimony
Checking for Analogy argument
9. 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'
Good Moral Character
(Argument by) Example
Questionable Cause
Isocrates
10. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Anadiplosis
Good Will (Ethos)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Testimony
11. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Definitional (Stasis)
Burden of Rejoinder
Ill
Tu Quoque
12. 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
First
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Parallelism
Sign
13. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Ponens
(Argument by) Example
Modus Tollens
Conceding Arguments
14. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Accident
Ethos
Blame
Cure
15. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Value-Oriented Arguments
Epistrophe
Epanalepsis
Tu Quoque
16. The list that builds
(Argument from) Sign
Incrementum
Ad Populum
Equivocation
17. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Parallelism
Status
Litotes
Exergasia
18. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Blame
Antithesis
Attitudinal (inherency)
Cure
19. Exaggeration
Formal Logic
Checking for Example argument
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Hyperbole
20. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Isocrates
Sign
Ill
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
21. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Locus of Quantity
Begging the Question
Ad Hominem
22. Oppostite of Litotes
Hyperbole
Special Topoi
Litotes
Non Sequitur
23. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Narrative
(Argument from) Narrative
Gorgias
Incrementum
24. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Hasty Generalization
Non Sequitur
Appeal to Ignorance
Conceding Arguments
25. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Second
Mercenary Scientists
Refutation Potential
Vehicle (and) Tenor
26. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Non Sequitur
Stasis
Correctio
Appeal to Ignorance
27. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Locus of Quality
Checking for Cause argement
Agree on Commonality then refute
Procedural (Stasis)
28. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Checking for Sign argument
Tokenism
29. Beginning repeated
Correctio
Ethos
Testimony
Anaphora
30. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Formal Debate
Litotes
Quantitative (significance)
31. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Incrementum
Good Moral Character
Stock Issues
Cost
32. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
(Argument from) Cause
Red Herring
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
33. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Agree on Commonality then refute
Unequivocal
Tokenism
Red Herring
34. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Grounds (or data)
Tisias
Metaphor
Tokenism
35. 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
Narrative
Ad Hominem
Anaphora
Shifting the Burden of Proof
36. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Popular Democracy
Special Topoi
Personification
Parallelism
37. 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
Formal Debate
Decision Rules
Unrepresentative Sample
(Argument from) Narrative
38. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Ambiguity
Small Sample
Refutation Potential
Equivocation
39. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
False Dichotomy
Appeal to Ignorance
Turn
Cost
40. 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.
Checking for Example argument
False Charge of Fallacy
Straw Person
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
41. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Tu Quoque
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Locus of Existence
42. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Ethos
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Hasty Generalization
Metaphor
43. 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'
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument from) Narrative
Structural (inherency)
Rhetoric
44. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
First
Anadiplosis
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Second (or) Third
45. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Ad Populum
Mercenary Scientists
(Fallacy of) Accident
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
46. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Erotema
Accident
Turn
Checking for Cause argement
47. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Epanalepsis
Tokenism
Arguments
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
48. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Cost
Litotes
Hasty Generalization
Appeal to Authority
49. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Tokenism
Checking for Sign argument
Modus Tollens
50. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Intelligence
Modus Tollens
Composition
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)