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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Epanalepsis
Division
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Modus Tollens
2. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Tu Quoque
Cliche
3. The list that builds
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Exergasia
Epanalepsis
Incrementum
4. 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:
Locus of Existence
Disassociation of Concepts
Sound
Blame
5. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Exergasia
Questionable Cause
(Special Topoi for) Science
Informal Debate
6. 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.
Value Hierarchies
Appeal to Ignorance
Analogy
Straw Person
7. Reasoning from case to case
Quantitative (significance)
Analogy
Corax
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
8. 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
Unsound
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Rhetoric
Correctio
9. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Debate Resolutions
Anaphora
Locus of Essence
Manufactroversy
10. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Litotes
Composition
Unrepresentative Sample
Tools of Refutation
11. Deliberate correction
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Tu Quoque
Conceding Arguments
Correctio
12. 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'
Accident
Litotes
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
13. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Presumption
Cure
Stock Issues
Straw Person
14. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Popular Democracy
Term I/Term II
Epanalepsis
Composition
15. Opposite of Anaphora
Epistrophe
Checking for Sign argument
Second
Argument
16. Opposite of anadiplosis
Epanalepsis
Litotes
Ethos
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
17. Oppostite of Litotes
Antithesis
Sound
Tokenism
Hyperbole
18. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Burden of Rejoinder
Rhetoric
Unequivocal
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
19. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Second
Term I/Term II
Structural (inherency)
Hyperbole
20. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Modus Tollens
Isocrates
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Composition
21. If A then B A Therefore B
Small Sample
Rhetoric
Modus Ponens
Parallelism
22. Good Moral Character
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Antithesis
Sophist
23. Ask a rhetorical question
Modus Ponens
Erotema
Definitional (Stasis)
Simile
24. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Turn
Anadiplosis
Antithesis
Manufactroversy
25. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.
Composition
Unrepresentative Sample
Hyperbole
Analogy
26. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Conjectural (Stasis)
Checking for Testimony argument
Parallelism
27. Ending repeated
Exergasia
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Epistrophe
28. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Good Moral Character
Metaphor
Mixed Metaphor
Straw Person
29. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Second
Quantitative (significance)
Anaphora
Appeal to Ignorance
30. 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?
Burden of proof
Checking for Sign argument
Popular Democracy
Value Hierarchies
31. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Enthymeme
Rhetoric
Red Herring
32. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Modus Tollens
Epanalepsis
Tu Quoque
Sign
33. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Enthymeme
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Protagoras
(Argument of ) General probability
34. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Composition
Presumption
35. 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?
Gorgias
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Anadiplosis
Checking for Example argument
36. 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
Euphimism
Loci of the Preferable
Ad Hominem
Refutation Potential
37. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Non Sequitur
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Testimony
38. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Checking for Narrative argument
Sound
Sign
(Special Topoi for) Science
39. Structure repeated
Parallelism
(Argument by) Example
Rhetoric
Tu Quoque
40. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Erotema
False Charge of Fallacy
Disassociation of Concepts
Analogy
41. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Protagoras
Enthymeme
(Argument from) Cause
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
42. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Blame
Blame
Erotema
Debate Resolutions
43. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Antithesis
Parallelism
Anadiplosis
Corax
44. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Decorum
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Charisma
45. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Checking for Analogy argument
Formal Logic
Analogy
Appeal to Authority
46. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Special Topoi
Rhetoric
Antithesis
Locus of Existence
47. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Good Will (Ethos)
Associated Commonplaces
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Metaphor
48. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Situationally flawed
Associated Commonplaces
Stock Issues
Value Hierarchies
49. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Consistency
Ad Populum
Checking for Testimony argument
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
50. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Epanalepsis
Sophist
Parallelism
Appeal to Authority