Test your basic knowledge |

Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. 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'






2. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






3. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






4. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.






5. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.






6. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






7. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?






8. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






9. 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.






10. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






11. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






12. A manufactured controversy that is motivated by profit or extreme ideology to intentionally create confusion in the public about an issue of scientific fact that is not in dispute by the scientific community. Used to stop debate at the conjectural le






13. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original






14. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'






15. 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'






16. Ideas repeated






17. Metaphors use ____ and ____






18. 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.






19. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')






20. 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.






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






22. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.






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






24. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)






25. beginning repeated at ending






26. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?






27. '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?






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






29. If A then B Not A Therefore not B






30. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties






31. If A then B A Therefore B






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






33. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






34. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






35. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






36. Understatement






37. 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






38. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth






39. Exaggeration






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






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






42. 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






43. Term with higher (positive) value






44. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another






45. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






46. 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.






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






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






49. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.






50. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)