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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






2. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties






3. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins






4. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?






5. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry






6. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






7. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue






8. Term with lower (negative) value






9. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'






10. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






11. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?






12. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)






13. 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?






14. 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'






15. 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






16. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






17. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






18. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?






19. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.






20. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)






21. Metaphors use ____ and ____






22. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue






23. 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?






24. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.






25. Ideas repeated






26. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






27. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.






28. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument






29. Oppostite of Litotes






30. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






31. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.






32. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






33. Understatement






34. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.






35. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible






36. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?






37. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives






38. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous






39. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






40. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing






41. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts






42. Beginning repeated






43. 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 -'






44. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






45. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument






46. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)






47. Deliberate correction






48. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






49. An argument that follows proper logical form






50. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.