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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)






2. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






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






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






5. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C






6. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






7. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?






8. Opposite of Hyperbole






9. Opposite of anadiplosis






10. Oral performances that have a set format in which two or more speakers take turns making arguments and counterarguments before an audience - Examples: Court room - candidate debates - academic debates






11. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?






12. 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 -'






13. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






14. 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






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






16. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)






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






18. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)






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






20. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)






21. A or B Not A Therefore - B






22. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






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






24. '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?






25. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C






26. 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.






27. Understatement






28. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?






29. 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'






30. The list that builds






31. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience






32. Ending repeated






33. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






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






35. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?






36. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity






37. 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.






38. Metaphors use ____ and ____






39. Structure repeated






40. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins






41. 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






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






43. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?






44. If A then B B Therefore - A






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






46. Appeals from the character of the speaker






47. 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






48. 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)






49. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner






50. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument