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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
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1. 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'






2. 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






3. 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'






4. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original






5. 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






6. 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'






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






8. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______






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






10. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity






11. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)






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






13. 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






14. 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:






15. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






16. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success






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






18. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts






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






20. 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






21. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






22. 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'






23. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)






24. An argument that follows proper logical form






25. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






26. A or B Not A Therefore - B






27. Opposite of Anaphora






28. Ask a rhetorical question






29. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost






30. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






31. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings






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






33. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done






34. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?






35. Opposite of Hyperbole






36. 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.






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






38. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)






39. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)






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






41. 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






42. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?






43. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?






44. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses






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






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






47. Understatement






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






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






50. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?