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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






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






3. beginning repeated at ending






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






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






6. 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






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






8. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.






9. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






10. Who developed the argument from general probability?






11. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






12. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity






13. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.






14. An argument with true premises and valid form






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






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






17. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






18. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument






19. 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.






20. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






21. 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?






22. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C






23. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'






24. 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'






25. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____






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






27. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?






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






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






30. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.






31. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






32. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






33. An argument that follows proper logical form






34. 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?






35. 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






36. Ideas repeated






37. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones






38. 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






39. Term with lower (negative) value






40. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






41. 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.






42. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change






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






44. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'






45. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C






46. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






47. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue






48. Circular Reasoning






49. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument






50. After this - therefore on account of this