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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Ad Populum
Structural (inherency)
Appeal to Ignorance
Anadiplosis
2. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Enthymeme
Accident
Sign
3. Metaphors use ____ and ____
First
Rhetoric
Example
Vehicle (and) Tenor
4. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Value-Oriented Arguments
Second (or) Third
Antithesis
False Charge of Fallacy
5. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Aristotle
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
(Special Topoi for) Science
False Charge of Fallacy
6. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Accident
Narrative
Charisma
Hyperbole
7. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Sophist
Blame
Refutation
Anadiplosis
8. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Aristotle
Hyperbole
(Special Topoi for) Science
9. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Correctio
Quantitative (significance)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Euphimism
10. Term with higher (positive) value
Epanalepsis
Anaphora
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
11. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Cost
Warrant
Non Sequitur
Ill
12. Set two things in opposition
Hyperbole
Toulmin Model
Antithesis
(Argument of ) General probability
13. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Rhetoric
Anaphora
Status
Checking for Analogy argument
14. 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?
Epistrophe
Burden of Rejoinder
Checking for Example argument
Example
15. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'
Personification
Fallacy Fallacy
Burden of Rejoinder
Non Sequitur
16. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
First
Formal Debate
Hyperbole
Prolepsis
17. 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'
Rhetoric
(Argument from) Sign
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Manufactroversy
18. 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?
Analogy
Checking for Sign argument
Epistrophe
Appeal to Authority
19. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Enthymeme
Epistrophe
Appeal to Authority
Consistency
20. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
(Argument by) Analogy
Mercenary Scientists
Aristotle
(Argument from) Narrative
21. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Ad Populum
Unequivocal
Composition
Checking for Example argument
22. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Second (or) Third
Arguments
Conjectural (Stasis)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
23. What vehicles and tenors share
Isocrates
Syllogism
Associated Commonplaces
Archetypal (Metaphor)
24. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Stock Issues
Antithesis
Non Sequitur
Protagoras
25. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Anadiplosis
Tokenism
Tu Quoque
Anaphora
26. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Deductive Reasoning
Tu Quoque
Value-Oriented Arguments
Sign
27. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Small Sample
Informal Debate
Decorum
Burden of Rejoinder
28. 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
Loci of the Preferable
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Hasty Generalization
Locus of Quality
29. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Grounds (or data)
Ambiguity
Hasty Generalization
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
30. 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
Aristotle
Tools of Refutation
Value-Oriented Arguments
Hasty Generalization
31. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Ponens
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Decision Rules
Enthymeme
32. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Unsound
Consistency
Division
33. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
False Charge of Fallacy
Warrant
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
34. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Tu Quoque
Argument
35. 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
Presumption
Rhetoric
Cost
Hasty Generalization
36. 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
Sign
(Argument by) Analogy
Epistrophe
Vehicle (and) Tenor
37. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Euphimism
Composition
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
38. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Analogy
First
Cure
Narrative
39. Opposite of Hyperbole
Checking for Testimony argument
Litotes
(Fallacy of) Accident
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
40. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Unsound
Ethos
Division
Locus of Existence
41. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Value Hierarchies
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Cure
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
42. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Simile
Refutation
False Charge of Fallacy
43. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Anaphora
Definitional (Stasis)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Associated Commonplaces
44. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Litotes
Hasty Generalization
Antithesis
Rhetoric
45. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Second (or) Third
Composition
Locus of Essence
Hyperbole
46. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Litotes
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Conjectural (Stasis)
Correctio
47. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
(Argument from) Cause
Decision Rules
Definitional (Stasis)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
48. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Isocrates
(Argument of ) General probability
Popular Democracy
49. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Anadiplosis
Blame
Non Sequitur
Corax
50. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.
(Argument from) Sign
Disassociation of Concepts
Checking for Narrative argument
(Argument from) Cause