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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Checking for Analogy argument
Epanalepsis
Appeal to Ignorance
Hyperbole
2. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Second (or) Third
Narrative
(Fallacy of) Accident
Analogy
3. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Antithesis
Tu Quoque
Turn
4. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Conceding Arguments
False Dichotomy
Erotema
Unequivocal
5. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Erotema
Tisias
Commonplaces
Turn
6. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Intelligence
Analogy
Antithesis
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
7. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Questionable Analogy
Deductive Reasoning
Conjectural (Stasis)
Burden of Rejoinder
8. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Litotes
Toulmin Model
Informal Debate
Refutation Strategies
9. 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.
Begging the Question
Questionable Analogy
Epanalepsis
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
10. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Checking for Analogy argument
Sign
Burden of proof
Tisias
11. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Protagoras
Prolepsis
Debate Resolutions
Attitudinal (inherency)
12. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Syllogism
Vehicle (and) Tenor
13. 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.
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Good Moral Character
(Argument from) Sign
Unrepresentative Sample
14. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Hasty Generalization
Hyperbole
Conceding Arguments
15. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec
Burden of Rejoinder
(Argument by) Analogy
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Special Topoi
16. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Good Will (Ethos)
Ad Populum
Arguments
17. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
(Argument by) Example
Intelligence
Metaphor
Isocrates
18. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Equivocation
Correctio
Categorical (Syllogism)
(Argument from) Sign
19. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Checking for Narrative argument
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Anadiplosis
Appeal to Authority
20. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Refutation
Good Will (Ethos)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Epistrophe
21. Does one thing really cause the other - or are they merely correlated? Is there another larger cause or series of causes that better explains the effect?
Hasty Generalization
Hyperbole
Antithesis
Checking for Cause argement
22. If A then B B Therefore - A
Fallacy Fallacy
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Enthymeme
First
23. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Structural (inherency)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Unequivocal
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
24. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Charisma
Refutation Strategies
Locus of Existence
Categorical (Syllogism)
25. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Second
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Aristotle
Non Sequitur
26. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Presumption
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
27. Opposite of anadiplosis
Associated Commonplaces
Epanalepsis
Formal Logic
Claim
28. 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.
Refutation Strategies
Checking for Cause argement
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Appeal to Authority
29. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Parallelism
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Hasty Generalization
Definitional (Stasis)
30. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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31. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
Rhetoric
Exergasia
Special Topoi
32. 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)
Procedural (Stasis)
(Argument from) Narrative
Fallacy Fallacy
Checking for Example argument
33. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Litotes
Mercenary Scientists
Epistrophe
Tu Quoque
34. 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
Exergasia
Litotes
Checking for Testimony argument
Tools of Refutation
35. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Charisma
Definitional (Stasis)
(Argument from) Sign
Decorum
36. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
(Argument by) Example
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Refutation Strategies
Anaphora
37. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Antithesis
Rhetoric
(Argument by) Example
Erotema
38. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Ad Populum
Locus of Quality
Anaphora
False Dichotomy
39. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Erotema
Tu Quoque
Appeal to Ignorance
40. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Division
Burden of Rejoinder
Informal Debate
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
41. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Ill
Term I/Term II
Testimony
Composition
42. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Erotema
Debate Resolutions
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Value-Oriented Arguments
43. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Sound
Incrementum
Charisma
Definitional (Stasis)
44. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'
Intelligence
Stock Issues
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Refutation Strategies
45. Ask a rhetorical question
Hyperbole
Disassociation of Concepts
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Erotema
46. Opposite of Hyperbole
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Litotes
Checking for Analogy argument
Stock Issues
47. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Agree on Commonality then refute
Incrementum
Begging the Question
False Dichotomy
48. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Toulmin Model
Claim
Sound
Argument
49. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
(Fallacy of) Accident
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Checking for Sign argument
Second (or) Third
50. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Formal Debate
Tisias
Cliche
Questionable Analogy