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1. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Stasis
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Appeal to Ignorance
Situationally flawed
2. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
(Argument from) Cause
Turn
Cure
3. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
(Argument from) Sign
Narrative
Decorum
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
4. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Toulmin Model
Claim
Anaphora
Correctio
5. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Status
Hasty Generalization
6. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Procedural (Stasis)
(Argument by) Example
Hyperbole
7. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Anaphora
Direct Refutation
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Unrepresentative Sample
8. Opposite of Anaphora
Stasis
Rhetoric
Epistrophe
Agree on Commonality then refute
9. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Intelligence
Attitudinal (inherency)
False Dichotomy
Conjectural (Stasis)
10. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Equivocation
Metaphor
11. 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
Formal Debate
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Special Topoi
12. 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'
Deductive Reasoning
Commonplaces
Ad Hominem
Exergasia
13. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Rhetoric
Commonplaces
Division
Quantitative (significance)
14. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Grounds (or data)
Status
Begging the Question
Associated Commonplaces
15. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Unrepresentative Sample
Hyperbole
Anaphora
16. Opposite of anadiplosis
Ill
Epanalepsis
Grounds (or data)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
17. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Isocrates
Anadiplosis
Refutation
Loci of the Preferable
18. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Fallacy Fallacy
Erotema
19. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Blame
Checking for Cause argement
Conjectural (Stasis)
Enthymeme
20. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Enthymeme
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Rhetoric
Corax
21. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Ad Populum
Analogy
Claim
22. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Simile
Decorum
Debate Resolutions
Good Moral Character
23. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo
Stock Issues
Decision Rules
Anaphora
Stasis
24. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Blame
(Argument from) Testimony
Division
25. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Unequivocal
Hyperbole
Value-Oriented Arguments
Questionable Cause
26. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Ponens
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Popular Democracy
Non Sequitur
27. Ideas repeated
Exergasia
Anaphora
Division
Term I/Term II
28. Deliberate correction
Parallelism
Correctio
Mixed Metaphor
Rhetoric
29. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Structural (inherency)
Stock Issues
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Refutation
30. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Cure
Value-Oriented Arguments
Refutation Strategies
Value Hierarchies
31. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Ambiguity
Categorical (Syllogism)
Epanalepsis
Stock Issues
32. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Epistrophe
Stasis
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Simile
33. 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'
(Argument from) Narrative
(Fallacy of) Accident
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Anaphora
34. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
Litotes
Definitional (Stasis)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
35. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Division
Questionable Cause
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
36. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Equivocation
Manufactroversy
Correctio
Hasty Generalization
37. Beginning repeated
Tu Quoque
Anaphora
Exergasia
First
38. 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
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Hasty Generalization
Composition
39. 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
Unrepresentative Sample
Attitudinal (inherency)
(Argument by) Analogy
Litotes
40. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Analogy
Analogy
Burden of Rejoinder
Personification
41. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Ill
Isocrates
Appeal to Authority
Ad Populum
42. 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.
Appeal to Authority
Decorum
Straw Person
Narrative
43. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
Anadiplosis
Blame
Presumption
44. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Ill
Protagoras
Enthymeme
Locus of Quantity
45. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Formal Debate
Popular Democracy
Non Sequitur
Burden of Rejoinder
46. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Consistency
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
(Special Topoi for) Science
Attitudinal (inherency)
47. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
(Argument from) Testimony
Value Hierarchies
Hyperbole
48. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Second
Stasis
Litotes
Situationally flawed
49. Reasoning from case to case
Correctio
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Analogy
50. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Appeal to Authority
Cost
Correctio
Archetypal (Metaphor)