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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Tisias
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Epistrophe
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
2. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Small Sample
Plato
Anaphora
Appeal to Ignorance
3. Opposite of anadiplosis
Refutation Potential
Epanalepsis
First
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
4. 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
Parallelism
Hasty Generalization
Euphimism
Epanalepsis
5. Understatement
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Enthymeme
Litotes
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
6. Ask a rhetorical question
Locus of Quantity
Erotema
Checking for Narrative argument
Unequivocal
7. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Rhetoric
Tu Quoque
Situationally flawed
Refutation Strategies
8. An argument with true premises and valid form
Ill
Sound
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Second (or) Third
9. 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
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Decision Rules
(Argument from) Sign
(Argument from) Testimony
10. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Ad Hominem
Intelligence
Appeal to Authority
Epistrophe
11. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Formal Logic
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Consistency
(Special Topoi for) Science
12. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Checking for Narrative argument
Protagoras
Anadiplosis
Hasty Generalization
13. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Ill
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Disassociation of Concepts
Status
14. 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:
Simile
Erotema
Protagoras
Blame
15. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Refutation Potential
Qualitative (Stasis)
Status
(Argument of ) General probability
16. Deliberate correction
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Rhetoric
Correctio
Equivocation
17. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Checking for Narrative argument
Appeal to Ignorance
First
Division
18. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Cliche
Ambiguity
Decision Rules
Anadiplosis
19. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Special Topoi
Division
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
20. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Procedural (Stasis)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Decorum
Small Sample
21. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Value Hierarchies
Epanalepsis
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
22. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Hyperbole
Small Sample
Second
23. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Rhetoric
Antithesis
Composition
24. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Warrant
Narrative
Special Topoi
Refutation Potential
25. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'
Ad Hominem
Litotes
Second
Unrepresentative Sample
26. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Procedural (Stasis)
Commonplaces
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Archetypal (Metaphor)
27. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Cure
Qualitative (Stasis)
Enthymeme
First
28. 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'
False Dichotomy
(Argument from) Narrative
Locus of Essence
Testimony
29. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Locus of Essence
(Argument of ) General probability
Debate Resolutions
Toulmin Model
30. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
Rhetoric
Consistency
Claim
31. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Corax
Rhetoric
Correctio
Good Will (Ethos)
32. Ideas repeated
Rhetoric
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Checking for Cause argement
Exergasia
33. 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
Stasis
Loci of the Preferable
Erotema
Common Practice (Fallacy)
34. Circular Reasoning
Begging the Question
Epanalepsis
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Structural (inherency)
35. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
(Argument from) Sign
Exergasia
Questionable Cause
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
36. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
First
Fallacy Fallacy
Locus of Essence
37. 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
Formal Debate
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Burden of Rejoinder
(Argument by) Analogy
38. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Hyperbole
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Syllogism
39. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Tu Quoque
Decorum
40. 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?
Enthymeme
Exergasia
Checking for Analogy argument
Tu Quoque
41. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Small Sample
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Stock Issues
42. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Categorical (Syllogism)
Hasty Generalization
Small Sample
Mercenary Scientists
43. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Blame
Unrepresentative Sample
Red Herring
44. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Metaphor
Categorical (Syllogism)
Refutation Potential
Begging the Question
45. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Associated Commonplaces
Division
Decorum
Litotes
46. 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
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Consistency
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Non Sequitur
47. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Sign
Anaphora
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Consistency
48. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Litotes
Direct Refutation
Unsound
Simile
49. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Disassociation of Concepts
Corax
Begging the Question
Metaphor
50. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Analogy
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Rhetoric
False Dichotomy