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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Unequivocal
(Argument of ) General probability
Value-Oriented Arguments
Refutation
2. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Tu Quoque
Decorum
Epanalepsis
Quantitative (significance)
3. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Plato
Deductive Reasoning
Second (or) Third
4. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
False Charge of Fallacy
Composition
(Fallacy of) Accident
Emotionally Charged (Language)
5. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Metaphor
Testimony
Incrementum
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
6. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Decorum
Modus Ponens
Mercenary Scientists
Ad Hominem
7. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Conceding Arguments
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Second (or) Third
Stock Issues
8. 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?
Charisma
Checking for Example argument
(Argument from) Testimony
Good Moral Character
9. 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
Simile
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Ill
Rhetoric
10. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Composition
Division
Erotema
Begging the Question
11. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Locus of Existence
Modus Ponens
Grounds (or data)
12. Term with higher (positive) value
Aristotle
Sophist
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Epanalepsis
13. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Sign
Erotema
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Non Sequitur
14. Set two things in opposition
Term I/Term II
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Antithesis
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
15. beginning repeated at ending
Status
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Epanalepsis
Burden of proof
16. 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
Formal Logic
Mercenary Scientists
Red Herring
17. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Protagoras
Mercenary Scientists
18. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
Checking for Analogy argument
Locus of Quantity
Narrative
Mercenary Scientists
19. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Appeal to Ignorance
(Fallacy of) Accident
Sign
Isocrates
20. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Sign
Refutation Potential
Attitudinal (inherency)
Euphimism
21. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Categorical (Syllogism)
Tu Quoque
Presumption
Informal Debate
22. 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
Hyperbole
Loci of the Preferable
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Gorgias
23. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Rhetoric
Formal Debate
Erotema
Questionable Cause
24. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Term I/Term II
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Division
25. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Debate Resolutions
Commonplaces
Structural (inherency)
Warrant
26. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Locus of Essence
Locus of Existence
Tu Quoque
27. 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?
Checking for Sign argument
Rhetoric
Procedural (Stasis)
Consistency
28. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Popular Democracy
29. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Straw Person
Isocrates
Locus of Essence
Blame
30. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Testimony
Cliche
Quantitative (significance)
Burden of Rejoinder
31. 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
Straw Person
Accident
Questionable Cause
Hasty Generalization
32. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Term I/Term II
Checking for Cause argement
Refutation
Antithesis
33. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Disassociation of Concepts
Refutation Strategies
Blame
34. 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:
(Fallacy of) Accident
(Argument by) Analogy
Turn
Blame
35. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Manufactroversy
Euphimism
Good Will (Ethos)
Protagoras
36. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Appeal to Ignorance
Second
Special Topoi
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
37. Term with lower (negative) value
Epanalepsis
Mixed Metaphor
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
38. 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?
(Argument from) Narrative
Direct Refutation
Checking for Cause argement
Procedural (Stasis)
39. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Division
Ill
Plato
(Fallacy of) Accident
40. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Manufactroversy
Stock Issues
Consistency
Antithesis
41. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Decision Rules
Archetypal (Metaphor)
(Argument by) Example
42. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Intelligence
Simile
First
Stasis
43. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
(Argument by) Example
Manufactroversy
Example
Anaphora
44. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Parallelism
Prolepsis
Plato
45. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Anaphora
Non Sequitur
Categorical (Syllogism)
Formal Logic
46. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Blame
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
47. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Appeal to Authority
(Special Topoi for) Science
(Argument of ) General probability
Begging the Question
48. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Division
Refutation Strategies
Rhetoric
Refutation
49. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Rhetoric
Consistency
Appeal to Authority
Procedural (Stasis)
50. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Cost
Burden of proof
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Cliche