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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Locus of Quality
Ethos
Formal Debate
Value Hierarchies
2. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Hasty Generalization
Consistency
Begging the Question
(Argument from) Testimony
3. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Composition
Prolepsis
Small Sample
Non Sequitur
4. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Special Topoi
Corax
First
5. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Commonplaces
Syllogism
Decorum
Division
6. 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'
Formal Logic
False Charge of Fallacy
Ad Hominem
Toulmin Model
7. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Litotes
Ad Populum
Checking for Testimony argument
Stasis
8. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Non Sequitur
Blame
Epanalepsis
9. 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
Attitudinal (inherency)
Stasis
Categorical (Syllogism)
Rhetoric
10. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
(Argument from) Testimony
Ill
Correctio
Metaphor
11. Term with higher (positive) value
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Good Will (Ethos)
Manufactroversy
12. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Direct Refutation
Rhetoric
Exergasia
13. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Locus of Existence
Incrementum
Aristotle
Checking for Sign argument
14. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Sound
Cost
Second (or) Third
Argument
15. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Stasis
Commonplaces
Cost
(Argument from) Sign
16. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Tools of Refutation
Anadiplosis
17. Opposite of anadiplosis
Structural (inherency)
Erotema
Epanalepsis
Hyperbole
18. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
(Argument of ) General probability
Procedural (Stasis)
Epistrophe
19. 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
Associated Commonplaces
Syllogism
Attitudinal (inherency)
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
20. Circular Reasoning
False Charge of Fallacy
Agree on Commonality then refute
Checking for Testimony argument
Begging the Question
21. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Blame
Isocrates
(Argument by) Example
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
22. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Ethos
Fallacy Fallacy
Modus Tollens
Stasis
23. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Appeal to Authority
Unrepresentative Sample
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
24. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Intelligence
Anadiplosis
Narrative
Division
25. 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
Conceding Arguments
False Dichotomy
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Grounds (or data)
26. Reasoning from case to case
Analogy
Informal Debate
Euphimism
Definitional (Stasis)
27. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Anadiplosis
Checking for Testimony argument
Attitudinal (inherency)
(Argument of ) General probability
28. 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
Anaphora
Anadiplosis
Aristotle
(Argument by) Analogy
29. If A then B B Therefore - A
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Analogy
Unrepresentative Sample
Decision Rules
30. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Personification
Composition
False Charge of Fallacy
Conceding Arguments
31. Opposite of Anaphora
Sound
Epistrophe
Loci of the Preferable
Tu Quoque
32. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Questionable Cause
Testimony
Categorical (Syllogism)
Sophist
33. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Good Moral Character
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Situationally flawed
(Argument from) Narrative
34. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Personification
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Anadiplosis
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
35. Ending repeated
Categorical (Syllogism)
Value Hierarchies
Burden of proof
Epistrophe
36. The list that builds
Incrementum
Questionable Cause
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Locus of Essence
37. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Straw Person
Division
(Argument from) Sign
38. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Litotes
Exergasia
Testimony
39. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Locus of Quality
Special Topoi
Epanalepsis
Claim
40. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Antithesis
Composition
Metaphor
Second (or) Third
41. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Associated Commonplaces
Syllogism
Hyperbole
Formal Logic
42. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Rhetoric
Cure
Begging the Question
Quantitative (significance)
43. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Checking for Sign argument
Blame
Fallacies
Burden of proof
44. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Value Hierarchies
Analogy
Cure
45. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Epistrophe
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Associated Commonplaces
Epanalepsis
46. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Correctio
Isocrates
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Unrepresentative Sample
47. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Testimony
Argument
Simile
Litotes
48. An argument that follows proper logical form
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Sound
Valid
Begging the Question
49. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Fallacies
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Refutation
Special Topoi
50. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Ill
Protagoras
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Unsound