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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Incrementum
Enthymeme
Direct Refutation
2. 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
Fallacy Fallacy
Checking for Cause argement
Categorical (Syllogism)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
3. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Burden of proof
Good Will (Ethos)
Commonplaces
4. What vehicles and tenors share
Sign
Ethos
(Argument by) Analogy
Associated Commonplaces
5. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Metaphor
Anadiplosis
Unsound
(Special Topoi for) Science
6. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Unrepresentative Sample
Gorgias
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Example
7. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Simile
(Argument from) Cause
Direct Refutation
Euphimism
8. 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
Checking for Cause argement
Situationally flawed
Categorical (Syllogism)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
9. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Consistency
Parallelism
False Charge of Fallacy
Small Sample
10. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Hyperbole
Protagoras
(Argument of ) General probability
11. Term with higher (positive) value
Term I/Term II
Argument
Commonplaces
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
12. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Syllogism
Definitional (Stasis)
Status
Aristotle
13. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Burden of proof
Division
Quantitative (significance)
Presumption
14. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Second (or) Third
Appeal to Authority
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Rhetoric
15. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Metaphor
Conjectural (Stasis)
Emotionally Charged (Language)
16. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Categorical (Syllogism)
Gorgias
Red Herring
Locus of Existence
17. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
(Argument from) Cause
Quantitative (significance)
Protagoras
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
18. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Division
Litotes
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Term I/Term II
19. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Decorum
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Rhetoric
20. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Anadiplosis
Composition
Parallelism
Tokenism
21. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Hasty Generalization
Ad Hominem
Formal Logic
22. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Value Hierarchies
Special Topoi
Decorum
Testimony
23. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Associated Commonplaces
Simile
Tu Quoque
Small Sample
24. 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
Red Herring
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Checking for Cause argement
Tools of Refutation
25. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Erotema
Sign
Warrant
Presumption
26. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Term I/Term II
Appeal to Ignorance
Special Topoi
(Argument by) Analogy
27. 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
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Quantitative (significance)
(Argument by) Analogy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
28. Good Moral Character
(Argument from) Narrative
Shifting the Burden of Proof
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
29. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Non Sequitur
Grounds (or data)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
30. 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'
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
(Argument by) Example
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Turn
31. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Small Sample
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Anadiplosis
Anaphora
32. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Stasis
Attitudinal (inherency)
Straw Person
Isocrates
33. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Tu Quoque
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Formal Logic
Blame
34. 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 Sign argument
Anaphora
Composition
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
35. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Division
Litotes
Non Sequitur
36. 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'
(Argument from) Cause
Manufactroversy
Non Sequitur
(Argument from) Testimony
37. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Ad Hominem
Metaphor
Anadiplosis
Shifting the Burden of Proof
38. 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'
Burden of Rejoinder
Checking for Analogy argument
(Argument from) Narrative
Corax
39. The list that builds
Questionable Cause
Mixed Metaphor
Incrementum
Value-Oriented Arguments
40. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'
(Argument from) Sign
Anaphora
False Dichotomy
Sign
41. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Fallacy Fallacy
Locus of Quantity
Gorgias
Charisma
42. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Hyperbole
Anaphora
Stasis
Euphimism
43. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Stasis
Division
Tu Quoque
Hyperbole
44. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Second (or) Third
Mercenary Scientists
Hyperbole
Rhetoric
45. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Rhetoric
Modus Tollens
Tu Quoque
Locus of Quality
46. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Testimony
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Fallacies
Appeal to Ignorance
47. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals
Parallelism
Anadiplosis
Simile
Agree on Commonality then refute
48. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Unequivocal
Warrant
Tisias
Simile
49. 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'
Exergasia
Ill
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Argument
50. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population
False Dichotomy
Non Sequitur
Incrementum
Small Sample