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Public Debating
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soft-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Red Herring
Antithesis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Small Sample
2. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Situationally flawed
False Dichotomy
(Argument from) Narrative
3. An argument with true premises and valid form
Questionable Analogy
Isocrates
Sound
Mercenary Scientists
4. 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?
Ill
Checking for Example argument
(Argument by) Example
Metaphor
5. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
Accident
Erotema
Questionable Analogy
6. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Tokenism
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Quantitative (significance)
Value Hierarchies
7. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Epanalepsis
Second
Modus Tollens
8. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Incrementum
Epanalepsis
Small Sample
Narrative
9. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Metaphor
Fallacy Fallacy
Structural (inherency)
Consistency
10. 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.
Appeal to Authority
Second
Special Topoi
Deductive Reasoning
11. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Tu Quoque
Division
Warrant
Epistrophe
12. 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
(Fallacy of) Accident
Categorical (Syllogism)
Antithesis
Hyperbole
13. 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
Ambiguity
Second
Checking for Analogy argument
Syllogism
14. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Checking for Example argument
Tu Quoque
Analogy
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
15. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Testimony
Red Herring
Epanalepsis
Emotionally Charged (Language)
16. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Tokenism
Analogy
Hyperbole
17. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Tools of Refutation
(Argument by) Example
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Simile
18. Exaggeration
Anadiplosis
(Argument by) Analogy
Personification
Hyperbole
19. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Epistrophe
Ethos
Debate Resolutions
Composition
20. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Hyperbole
Tisias
Claim
21. 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
Formal Debate
Non Sequitur
Decorum
Appeal to Ignorance
22. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:
Narrative
Blame
Metaphor
Intelligence
23. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Erotema
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Erotema
Isocrates
24. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Aristotle
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Toulmin Model
Appeal to Ignorance
25. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Value-Oriented Arguments
Checking for Narrative argument
Litotes
Special Topoi
26. 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'
(Argument from) Sign
Decorum
Toulmin Model
Checking for Testimony argument
27. 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'
Tu Quoque
Tools of Refutation
Modus Tollens
Appeal to Ignorance
28. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
False Dichotomy
Epistrophe
Parallelism
Qualitative (Stasis)
29. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
(Argument from) Narrative
Sign
Formal Debate
Plato
30. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Consistency
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Litotes
Personification
31. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Claim
Anaphora
Correctio
Non Sequitur
32. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Locus of Quality
Direct Refutation
Formal Logic
Good Will (Ethos)
33. 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
Non Sequitur
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Parallelism
34. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Argument
Conceding Arguments
Antithesis
35. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Begging the Question
Definitional (Stasis)
Appeal to Ignorance
Plato
36. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?
Checking for Testimony argument
Litotes
Correctio
Division
37. 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
Testimony
Popular Democracy
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
38. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Hyperbole
Decision Rules
Refutation Potential
Sign
39. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Sound
Epistrophe
Locus of Quantity
40. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Arguments
Anadiplosis
Value-Oriented Arguments
Prolepsis
41. After this - therefore on account of this
Categorical (Syllogism)
Appeal to Authority
Tools of Refutation
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
42. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Hyperbole
Euphimism
43. 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
Rhetoric
Questionable Cause
Protagoras
Second (or) Third
44. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Checking for Example argument
Metaphor
Refutation Potential
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
45. Ideas repeated
Formal Logic
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Exergasia
Correctio
46. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Equivocation
Rhetoric
First
Appeal to Authority
47. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Litotes
Cliche
Epanalepsis
48. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Informal Debate
Appeal to Authority
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
49. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Value Hierarchies
Structural (inherency)
Good Will (Ethos)
50. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Correctio
Exergasia
Intelligence
Appeal to Authority