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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?






2. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






3. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B






4. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)






5. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






6. 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






7. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.






8. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.






9. 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?






10. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'






11. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)






12. 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






13. Value Hierarchy Visualization






14. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.






15. 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.






16. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C






17. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning






18. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)






19. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members






20. Ask a rhetorical question






21. Opposite of anadiplosis






22. Oppostite of Litotes






23. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?






24. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?






25. Who developed the argument from general probability?






26. 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






27. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)






28. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument






29. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.






30. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






31. Opposite of Anaphora






32. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole






33. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success






34. If A then B B Therefore - A






35. 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






36. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)






37. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






38. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






39. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings






40. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)






41. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






42. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses






43. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____






44. What vehicles and tenors share






45. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.






46. 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'






47. 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






48. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






49. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






50. 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: