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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument from) Sign
(Argument of ) General probability
Hasty Generalization
Erotema
2. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Grounds (or data)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Structural (inherency)
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
3. 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:
Gorgias
Blame
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
4. Focuses on inadequacies or problems in the status quo - must be significant if a change is to be made. Must Have: 1. Quantitative significance: affects lots of people 2. Qualitative significance: is of bad quality
Ill
Rhetoric
Hyperbole
Procedural (Stasis)
5. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Presumption
Ad Populum
Stasis
6. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Ambiguity
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Begging the Question
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
7. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Personification
Mixed Metaphor
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
8. Circular Reasoning
Value Hierarchies
Manufactroversy
Begging the Question
Anaphora
9. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Term I/Term II
Antithesis
Rhetoric
Modus Tollens
10. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Litotes
Sign
Categorical (Syllogism)
Burden of Rejoinder
11. Structure repeated
Ad Hominem
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Parallelism
Hasty Generalization
12. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Rhetoric
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Argument
Begging the Question
13. Good Moral Character
Parallelism
Tu Quoque
Unrepresentative Sample
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
14. Who developed the argument from general probability?
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Checking for Example argument
Corax
Personification
15. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Hasty Generalization
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Intelligence
16. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Ambiguity
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Questionable Cause
17. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Epanalepsis
Value-Oriented Arguments
18. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Status
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Analogy
Metaphor
19. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Categorical (Syllogism)
Arguments
Antithesis
Commonplaces
20. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Qualitative (Stasis)
Sophist
Checking for Analogy argument
Structural (inherency)
21. Ideas repeated
Exergasia
Cliche
Popular Democracy
Tools of Refutation
22. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Hyperbole
Second
Conceding Arguments
Protagoras
23. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Begging the Question
(Special Topoi for) Science
Procedural (Stasis)
Decision Rules
24. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Hyperbole
Exergasia
Blame
Locus of Quantity
25. Beginning repeated
Composition
(Argument by) Analogy
Locus of Essence
Anaphora
26. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Categorical (Syllogism)
Tisias
Blame
Metaphor
27. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Plato
Checking for Testimony argument
Isocrates
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
28. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Refutation Strategies
Non Sequitur
Metaphor
29. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Stasis
Structural (inherency)
Grounds (or data)
30. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Debate Resolutions
Locus of Quantity
Equivocation
Qualitative (Stasis)
31. Opposite of Hyperbole
Charisma
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument by) Example
Litotes
32. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Analogy
Locus of Quality
Syllogism
33. Reasoning from case to case
Rhetoric
Good Will (Ethos)
Analogy
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
34. 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
Fallacy Fallacy
Mercenary Scientists
Refutation
Rhetoric
35. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Gorgias
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Qualitative (Stasis)
36. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Testimony
Aristotle
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Sign
37. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals
Fallacies
Simile
Anadiplosis
Agree on Commonality then refute
38. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Sophist
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Unrepresentative Sample
39. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Argument
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
40. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Sound
Associated Commonplaces
Analogy
41. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Tokenism
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Epistrophe
Ad Hominem
42. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Epanalepsis
Locus of Quality
Argument
43. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Antithesis
(Argument by) Analogy
Epistrophe
Appeal to Ignorance
44. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
Parallelism
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Unsound
45. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Ill
Analogy
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Correctio
46. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Locus of Quantity
Ill
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Cliche
47. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Appeal to Authority
Tisias
Composition
Sophist
48. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Mercenary Scientists
Blame
(Argument of ) General probability
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
49. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Decorum
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Anaphora
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
50. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Unequivocal
Accident
Associated Commonplaces
Warrant