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Public Debating
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1. 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.
Unequivocal
Rhetoric
Disassociation of Concepts
Sign
2. 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?
Checking for Cause argement
Term I/Term II
Associated Commonplaces
(Argument from) Narrative
3. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Euphimism
Claim
(Fallacy of) Accident
Intelligence
4. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Syllogism
Personification
Situationally flawed
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
5. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Structural (inherency)
Loci of the Preferable
Locus of Quantity
6. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Litotes
Ill
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
7. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Appeal to Authority
Formal Debate
Equivocation
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
8. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Ambiguity
Situationally flawed
Non Sequitur
9. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Refutation Potential
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Special Topoi
Consistency
10. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Claim
Checking for Sign argument
Ill
Deductive Reasoning
11. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Procedural (Stasis)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Parallelism
12. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Example
Ethos
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Deductive Reasoning
13. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Loci of the Preferable
Modus Tollens
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Isocrates
14. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Syllogism
Categorical (Syllogism)
False Dichotomy
Toulmin Model
15. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Qualitative (Stasis)
(Argument from) Testimony
Ad Populum
Tokenism
16. An argument with true premises and valid form
Ad Hominem
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Sound
Agree on Commonality then refute
17. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Accident
Correctio
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
(Argument from) Sign
18. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Parallelism
Erotema
Syllogism
Euphimism
19. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Epistrophe
Questionable Analogy
Status
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
20. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Locus of Essence
Sophist
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Example
21. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Attitudinal (inherency)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Anaphora
Second
22. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Situationally flawed
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Exergasia
Appeal to Ignorance
23. Term with higher (positive) value
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
(Argument by) Example
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
24. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Cost
Formal Logic
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Quantitative (significance)
25. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Manufactroversy
Anadiplosis
Locus of Existence
Arguments
26. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Prolepsis
Syllogism
Disassociation of Concepts
Formal Debate
27. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Aristotle
Personification
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Parallelism
28. beginning repeated at ending
Value-Oriented Arguments
Ad Populum
Epanalepsis
Litotes
29. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Straw Person
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Hasty Generalization
Hyperbole
30. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Erotema
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Vehicle (and) Tenor
31. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Sign
(Argument by) Example
Categorical (Syllogism)
Tools of Refutation
32. 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)
Structural (inherency)
Loci of the Preferable
Fallacy Fallacy
Accident
33. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
(Argument by) Example
Emotionally Charged (Language)
(Special Topoi for) Science
Metaphor
34. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Anadiplosis
Structural (inherency)
Fallacy Fallacy
Value-Oriented Arguments
35. Metaphors use ____ and ____
False Dichotomy
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Checking for Analogy argument
Analogy
36. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Begging the Question
Ambiguity
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Second
37. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Sound
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Equivocation
Situationally flawed
38. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Tu Quoque
Decorum
Division
Prolepsis
39. 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'
Good Moral Character
Modus Ponens
(Argument from) Testimony
(Argument by) Example
40. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Second (or) Third
Sign
Manufactroversy
Analogy
41. 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'
Ad Hominem
Small Sample
Anaphora
Personification
42. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Quantitative (significance)
Simile
Checking for Testimony argument
Informal Debate
43. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Informal Debate
Personification
Ill
(Argument from) Sign
44. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Anadiplosis
Division
Exergasia
Antithesis
45. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Informal Debate
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Situationally flawed
46. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Tokenism
Parallelism
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Gorgias
47. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
Term I/Term II
Exergasia
48. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Gorgias
Decision Rules
Special Topoi
Epanalepsis
49. 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
Appeal to Authority
Loci of the Preferable
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Hyperbole
50. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Ill
Example
Locus of Quantity
Questionable Analogy
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