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1. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo
(Argument from) Narrative
(Argument by) Analogy
Aristotle
Decision Rules
2. Can the sign be found without the thing for which it stands? Is an alternative explanation of the maning of the sign more credible? Are there countering signs that indicate that his one sign is false?
Checking for Narrative argument
Checking for Sign argument
Epistrophe
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
3. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
First
Second
Grounds (or data)
Epistrophe
4. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Composition
Quantitative (significance)
Refutation Potential
Plato
5. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Metaphor
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
(Argument from) Testimony
6. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Epistrophe
Plato
Tokenism
Aristotle
7. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacies
Valid
Begging the Question
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
8. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Agree on Commonality then refute
Epanalepsis
Ad Hominem
Locus of Quality
9. Circular Reasoning
Appeal to Authority
Begging the Question
Locus of Existence
Tisias
10. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Simile
Anaphora
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Cure
11. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Refutation
(Argument from) Testimony
Rhetoric
Locus of Quantity
12. 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'
Toulmin Model
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Common Practice (Fallacy)
(Argument by) Example
13. 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
Manufactroversy
Definitional (Stasis)
Hasty Generalization
Warrant
14. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Questionable Cause
Fallacies
Checking for Example argument
Hasty Generalization
15. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Aristotle
Composition
Grounds (or data)
Disassociation of Concepts
16. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Composition
Epistrophe
Loci of the Preferable
Anadiplosis
17. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Gorgias
Hyperbole
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Ill
18. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Litotes
False Dichotomy
Value-Oriented Arguments
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
19. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Tisias
Formal Debate
Anadiplosis
Red Herring
20. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Attitudinal (inherency)
Disassociation of Concepts
Hasty Generalization
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
21. Beginning repeated
Second
Anaphora
Antithesis
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
22. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Intelligence
Questionable Analogy
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Exergasia
23. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Composition
Definitional (Stasis)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Parallelism
24. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Division
Charisma
Anadiplosis
Epistrophe
25. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Checking for Analogy argument
Erotema
26. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Syllogism
Structural (inherency)
Metaphor
Antithesis
27. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Anaphora
Protagoras
Composition
Personification
28. Good Moral Character
Informal Debate
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Litotes
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
29. 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
Division
Formal Debate
Hasty Generalization
Appeal to Ignorance
30. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Tisias
Appeal to Ignorance
Refutation Strategies
Argument
31. What vehicles and tenors share
Analogy
Consistency
Appeal to Ignorance
Associated Commonplaces
32. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Decision Rules
Direct Refutation
Epistrophe
Special Topoi
33. An argument with true premises and valid form
Locus of Quantity
Begging the Question
Sound
Anadiplosis
34. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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35. 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
Manufactroversy
Straw Person
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Categorical (Syllogism)
36. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
Checking for Analogy argument
Begging the Question
Sign
37. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Value Hierarchies
Refutation Potential
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Enthymeme
38. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Status
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
39. Term with higher (positive) value
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Accident
Checking for Example argument
(Argument of ) General probability
40. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
Anaphora
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Sound
41. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Hasty Generalization
Begging the Question
Begging the Question
Erotema
42. Structure repeated
Non Sequitur
Anadiplosis
Gorgias
Parallelism
43. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second
Hyperbole
Second (or) Third
Burden of proof
44. 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.
Disassociation of Concepts
Narrative
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Ethos
45. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Charisma
Rhetoric
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Begging the Question
46. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Ethos
Anaphora
Modus Tollens
Tools of Refutation
47. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Burden of proof
Hyperbole
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
48. 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:
Blame
Anaphora
Erotema
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
49. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Arguments
Turn
Loci of the Preferable
Questionable Cause
50. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Tu Quoque
Good Moral Character
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Charisma