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Public Debating
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1. 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'
Qualitative (Stasis)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
(Argument from) Testimony
Division
2. 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.
Straw Person
Correctio
Refutation Strategies
Blame
3. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Conceding Arguments
Stasis
Refutation Potential
Intelligence
4. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Ponens
Categorical (Syllogism)
Cure
Tu Quoque
5. 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
Hasty Generalization
(Argument by) Analogy
Anaphora
Stock Issues
6. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Popular Democracy
(Argument by) Analogy
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Second (or) Third
7. After this - therefore on account of this
Refutation Potential
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Gorgias
Associated Commonplaces
8. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Corax
Locus of Quantity
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
9. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Metaphor
Special Topoi
Arguments
Checking for Narrative argument
10. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Fallacies
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Hasty Generalization
Burden of proof
11. 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:
Plato
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Ill
Blame
12. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Valid
Accident
Burden of proof
Good Moral Character
13. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Sound
Modus Tollens
Arguments
Testimony
14. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Rhetoric
Non Sequitur
Antithesis
15. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Term I/Term II
Rhetoric
Locus of Essence
Composition
16. 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
Manufactroversy
Term I/Term II
Sign
Testimony
17. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Anaphora
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Status
Burden of Rejoinder
18. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
Rhetoric
Tu Quoque
Hyperbole
19. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Rhetoric
Litotes
Mixed Metaphor
Cost
20. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Tisias
Non Sequitur
Cost
21. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Tisias
Conjectural (Stasis)
Anaphora
Vehicle (and) Tenor
22. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
(Fallacy of) Accident
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Decorum
Term I/Term II
23. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Cost
Situationally flawed
Unrepresentative Sample
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
24. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Mercenary Scientists
Situationally flawed
Composition
Appeal to Ignorance
25. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Checking for Testimony argument
Burden of proof
Blame
Unsound
26. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
Structural (inherency)
Presumption
Hyperbole
27. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Checking for Sign argument
Ad Populum
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Composition
28. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Refutation Potential
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Ad Populum
29. beginning repeated at ending
Rhetoric
Epanalepsis
Parallelism
(Argument from) Testimony
30. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Toulmin Model
Refutation Strategies
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Exergasia
31. 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
Agree on Commonality then refute
Qualitative (Stasis)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Parallelism
32. Ask a rhetorical question
Special Topoi
Questionable Cause
Erotema
Small Sample
33. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Claim
Conceding Arguments
Blame
Quantitative (significance)
34. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
(Argument from) Sign
Modus Tollens
Vehicle (and) Tenor
(Fallacy of) Accident
35. 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'
Blame
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
(Argument from) Narrative
Decorum
36. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Turn
Tools of Refutation
37. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Debate Resolutions
(Argument by) Analogy
Value Hierarchies
Common Practice (Fallacy)
38. 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'
Burden of proof
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument from) Sign
Isocrates
39. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Euphimism
Refutation Strategies
Presumption
Cost
40. 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
Tools of Refutation
Situationally flawed
Narrative
Appeal to Ignorance
41. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Hasty Generalization
Informal Debate
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Grounds (or data)
42. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Anaphora
Protagoras
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
43. 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
Second
Popular Democracy
Formal Debate
Valid
44. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Informal Debate
Epistrophe
(Argument by) Example
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
45. 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
Deductive Reasoning
Correctio
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Decision Rules
46. What vehicles and tenors share
Appeal to Ignorance
Associated Commonplaces
Parallelism
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
47. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Valid
Argument
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Anadiplosis
48. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Anaphora
Checking for Narrative argument
(Special Topoi for) Science
49. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Exergasia
Antithesis
Cure
Checking for Cause argement
50. 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.
Debate Resolutions
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Status
Categorical (Syllogism)
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