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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Deductive Reasoning
Good Moral Character
(Argument from) Testimony
Consistency
2. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Begging the Question
Narrative
3. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Gorgias
Example
Tu Quoque
4. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Locus of Quantity
Hasty Generalization
Simile
Parallelism
5. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Checking for Analogy argument
Ad Populum
Locus of Essence
False Dichotomy
6. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Isocrates
Gorgias
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
7. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Testimony
Argument
Unequivocal
Non Sequitur
8. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Red Herring
Fallacies
(Argument from) Cause
Valid
9. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Metaphor
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
10. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Cost
Tisias
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
11. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Fallacies
Enthymeme
(Argument by) Analogy
Attitudinal (inherency)
12. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Checking for Narrative argument
Mercenary Scientists
Categorical (Syllogism)
13. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
Tu Quoque
Value Hierarchies
Refutation Strategies
14. 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'
Categorical (Syllogism)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Presumption
False Charge of Fallacy
15. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Modus Tollens
Litotes
Questionable Cause
16. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Value Hierarchies
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Modus Tollens
Unrepresentative Sample
17. 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
Sign
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Protagoras
Manufactroversy
18. 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?
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Ethos
Checking for Cause argement
Plato
19. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Tu Quoque
Hyperbole
Cure
Commonplaces
20. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Locus of Quality
Ambiguity
Valid
Presumption
21. Reasoning from case to case
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Consistency
Locus of Essence
Analogy
22. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Hasty Generalization
Example
Checking for Cause argement
Structural (inherency)
23. 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?
Ambiguity
Hyperbole
Checking for Example argument
Unequivocal
24. Ideas repeated
False Charge of Fallacy
Exergasia
Cliche
Ad Populum
25. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Litotes
Status
Hyperbole
26. 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
Valid
Rhetoric
Toulmin Model
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
27. An argument with true premises and valid form
Exergasia
Consistency
Sound
Good Will (Ethos)
28. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.
Status
Protagoras
Straw Person
Informal Debate
29. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Charisma
Sign
Anadiplosis
Hyperbole
30. 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)
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Fallacy Fallacy
Conceding Arguments
Litotes
31. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Formal Debate
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Antithesis
Modus Ponens
32. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Modus Tollens
Unrepresentative Sample
Fallacies
33. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
First
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Litotes
Commonplaces
34. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Categorical (Syllogism)
Aristotle
Refutation Potential
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
35. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.
Commonplaces
Debate Resolutions
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Sign
36. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
First
Archetypal (Metaphor)
37. 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
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Correctio
Tools of Refutation
Begging the Question
38. Opposite of Hyperbole
(Argument from) Narrative
Litotes
Locus of Quality
Manufactroversy
39. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Quantitative (significance)
Exergasia
Associated Commonplaces
Refutation Strategies
40. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Simile
Composition
Formal Logic
Refutation
41. Structure repeated
Associated Commonplaces
Tu Quoque
Locus of Essence
Parallelism
42. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Prolepsis
Cure
Non Sequitur
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
43. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Rhetoric
Appeal to Ignorance
Sign
Burden of Rejoinder
44. 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
Litotes
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Ill
Epistrophe
45. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Modus Ponens
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Euphimism
Grounds (or data)
46. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Straw Person
Begging the Question
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Hyperbole
47. 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?
Ill
Anaphora
Structural (inherency)
Checking for Sign argument
48. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
Quantitative (significance)
Burden of Rejoinder
Syllogism
49. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Commonplaces
Anadiplosis
Blame
50. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Hyperbole
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Archetypal (Metaphor)