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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Appeals from the character of the speaker
(Special Topoi for) Science
Gorgias
Ethos
Questionable Cause
2. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Epistrophe
Argument
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Hyperbole
3. 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'
Checking for Sign argument
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
(Argument by) Example
Isocrates
4. 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
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
(Argument by) Analogy
Hyperbole
5. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Deductive Reasoning
Anadiplosis
Antithesis
Prolepsis
6. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Equivocation
Ambiguity
Epistrophe
Loci of the Preferable
7. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
(Special Topoi for) Science
Non Sequitur
Status
Begging the Question
8. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Exergasia
False Charge of Fallacy
Refutation
9. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Agree on Commonality then refute
Division
Charisma
10. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
(Argument by) Analogy
Tools of Refutation
Locus of Existence
Good Will (Ethos)
11. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Decorum
Refutation
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Cure
12. 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'
Presumption
False Charge of Fallacy
Good Will (Ethos)
(Argument from) Sign
13. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Antithesis
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Plato
Ad Populum
14. Opposite of Epistrophe
Anaphora
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Turn
Incrementum
15. 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
(Fallacy of) Accident
Small Sample
Ad Populum
Checking for Analogy argument
16. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Euphimism
Blame
Litotes
Correctio
17. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Composition
Special Topoi
Division
Toulmin Model
18. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Correctio
Agree on Commonality then refute
Categorical (Syllogism)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
19. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Manufactroversy
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
20. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Fallacies
Correctio
Commonplaces
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
21. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Antithesis
Decorum
Aristotle
False Charge of Fallacy
22. 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?
Rhetoric
Ill
Epistrophe
Checking for Cause argement
23. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Loci of the Preferable
Informal Debate
Simile
Rhetoric
24. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Associated Commonplaces
Equivocation
Blame
25. Reasoning from case to case
False Charge of Fallacy
Analogy
(Fallacy of) Accident
Appeal to Authority
26. Term with higher (positive) value
Anaphora
Rhetoric
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
27. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Quantitative (significance)
Anadiplosis
Blame
Litotes
28. 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.
Rhetoric
Stasis
Correctio
Unrepresentative Sample
29. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Exergasia
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Aristotle
Checking for Testimony argument
30. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Status
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Hasty Generalization
Tu Quoque
31. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Checking for Example argument
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Euphimism
Enthymeme
32. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Cliche
Syllogism
33. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Tools of Refutation
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Structural (inherency)
34. Beginning repeated
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Checking for Testimony argument
Anaphora
Conjectural (Stasis)
35. After this - therefore on account of this
Hyperbole
Cure
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
36. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Composition
Sound
(Argument from) Sign
Arguments
37. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Argument
Gorgias
Decorum
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
38. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Tu Quoque
Anadiplosis
Hasty Generalization
39. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Non Sequitur
Mixed Metaphor
40. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Epanalepsis
Gorgias
Ambiguity
41. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacies
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Exergasia
Archetypal (Metaphor)
42. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Straw Person
Epistrophe
Sign
43. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Checking for Analogy argument
Unsound
Narrative
Aristotle
44. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Refutation Potential
Isocrates
Appeal to Authority
45. The list that builds
Antithesis
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Incrementum
46. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
Prolepsis
(Argument from) Cause
Debate Resolutions
Litotes
47. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Hyperbole
Attitudinal (inherency)
Epanalepsis
Valid
48. 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
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Cost
Non Sequitur
Locus of Quality
49. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Appeal to Ignorance
Correctio
Unequivocal
Ad Populum
50. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Refutation
Euphimism
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Sophist