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1. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Non Sequitur
Hyperbole
Toulmin Model
Simile
2. If A then B B Therefore - A
Decision Rules
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Tokenism
Division
3. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Plato
Begging the Question
4. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Warrant
False Dichotomy
Decorum
Checking for Sign argument
5. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
First
Burden of proof
6. Opposite of anadiplosis
Hyperbole
Epanalepsis
Begging the Question
Locus of Quantity
7. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Epistrophe
Epanalepsis
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Exergasia
8. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Consistency
Definitional (Stasis)
Analogy
Arguments
9. 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
Hasty Generalization
Epanalepsis
Second (or) Third
Loci of the Preferable
10. Opposite of Hyperbole
Questionable Cause
Litotes
Categorical (Syllogism)
Second
11. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Analogy
Popular Democracy
Informal Debate
Straw Person
12. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Prolepsis
(Argument from) Sign
Modus Tollens
Warrant
13. Deliberate correction
Mercenary Scientists
Fallacies
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Correctio
14. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Unsound
Burden of Rejoinder
Sophist
Begging the Question
15. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Second (or) Third
Non Sequitur
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Intelligence
16. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Tisias
Anadiplosis
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Formal Logic
17. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Checking for Narrative argument
Rhetoric
Stock Issues
Locus of Quantity
18. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Locus of Quality
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Epistrophe
Analogy
19. beginning repeated at ending
Qualitative (Stasis)
Ad Populum
Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
20. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Procedural (Stasis)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Tu Quoque
Checking for Sign argument
21. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Good Will (Ethos)
Division
Locus of Quality
Vehicle (and) Tenor
22. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Categorical (Syllogism)
Anaphora
Conceding Arguments
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
23. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Fallacy Fallacy
Grounds (or data)
24. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
Anaphora
Disassociation of Concepts
Warrant
25. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Term I/Term II
Erotema
Analogy
Disassociation of Concepts
26. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
(Argument by) Example
Claim
Attitudinal (inherency)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
27. 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'
Associated Commonplaces
Archetypal (Metaphor)
(Argument from) Narrative
Conjectural (Stasis)
28. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
First
Value Hierarchies
Division
Narrative
29. The inference reasons that what a trustworthy source says is true. The warrant to this argument usually says - 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true'
(Argument by) Analogy
(Argument from) Testimony
Valid
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
30. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Special Topoi
Anadiplosis
Fallacy Fallacy
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
31. Ideas repeated
Conceding Arguments
Exergasia
Checking for Example argument
Analogy
32. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Incrementum
Warrant
Hasty Generalization
Anadiplosis
33. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
Parallelism
Rhetoric
Refutation Strategies
34. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Appeal to Authority
Sign
Parallelism
Isocrates
35. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Second (or) Third
Accident
Fallacies
Mercenary Scientists
36. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Second (or) Third
Rhetoric
Hyperbole
Corax
37. 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
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Burden of proof
Situationally flawed
Intelligence
38. Beginning repeated
Term I/Term II
Gorgias
Anaphora
Locus of Quality
39. 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)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Fallacy Fallacy
First
Structural (inherency)
40. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Loci of the Preferable
Personification
Conceding Arguments
Qualitative (Stasis)
41. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Prolepsis
Checking for Narrative argument
Unrepresentative Sample
Corax
42. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Value-Oriented Arguments
Tokenism
Qualitative (Stasis)
43. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Grounds (or data)
Parallelism
Associated Commonplaces
Value Hierarchies
44. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Cure
Sound
False Charge of Fallacy
Rhetoric
45. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Term I/Term II
Refutation Strategies
Corax
46. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.
Charisma
Disassociation of Concepts
Ethos
Prolepsis
47. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Sign
Warrant
Blame
48. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
False Dichotomy
Qualitative (Stasis)
Correctio
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
49. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Isocrates
Refutation Potential
(Argument by) Example
Checking for Narrative argument
50. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Simile
Qualitative (Stasis)
Ill
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