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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Claim
Non Sequitur
Locus of Quality
Ill
2. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Gorgias
Valid
Erotema
3. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Locus of Existence
Sign
Appeal to Ignorance
4. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Intelligence
Small Sample
Fallacies
Epistrophe
5. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Epistrophe
Agree on Commonality then refute
Definitional (Stasis)
Locus of Quantity
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
Personification
(Argument from) Narrative
Manufactroversy
Cure
7. Opposite of Anaphora
Litotes
Epistrophe
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Questionable Analogy
8. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Stasis
Equivocation
Quantitative (significance)
Anadiplosis
9. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Division
Fallacies
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Informal Debate
10. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Grounds (or data)
Antithesis
Structural (inherency)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
11. 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
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Hasty Generalization
Anaphora
Hyperbole
12. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Syllogism
(Argument by) Example
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
13. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Hyperbole
Situationally flawed
First
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
14. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Appeal to Authority
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Burden of proof
Commonplaces
15. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Anaphora
Refutation Strategies
Locus of Quantity
Equivocation
16. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Litotes
Personification
Conjectural (Stasis)
Begging the Question
17. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Unrepresentative Sample
Tisias
Intelligence
Debate Resolutions
18. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Small Sample
Corax
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
19. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
(Argument from) Testimony
Arguments
Refutation Potential
Quantitative (significance)
20. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Value-Oriented Arguments
Parallelism
Ambiguity
Second (or) Third
21. 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.
Appeal to Authority
Grounds (or data)
Checking for Testimony argument
Mercenary Scientists
22. Circular Reasoning
Begging the Question
Locus of Essence
Status
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
23. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?
Good Moral Character
Checking for Testimony argument
Deductive Reasoning
Rhetoric
24. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
Anadiplosis
Simile
Appeal to Authority
25. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Formal Logic
Appeal to Ignorance
Equivocation
Mixed Metaphor
26. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Fallacy Fallacy
Gorgias
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Composition
27. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Cliche
Hyperbole
Definitional (Stasis)
Metaphor
28. Structure repeated
Conjectural (Stasis)
Rhetoric
Informal Debate
Parallelism
29. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Modus Ponens
Mixed Metaphor
Value Hierarchies
Direct Refutation
30. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Small Sample
Ad Populum
(Argument by) Analogy
Presumption
31. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Status
Non Sequitur
Second (or) Third
Checking for Narrative argument
32. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Sound
Exergasia
Non Sequitur
Good Will (Ethos)
33. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Mercenary Scientists
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Metaphor
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
34. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Valid
Locus of Essence
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Appeal to Ignorance
35. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Disassociation of Concepts
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Sign
Tu Quoque
36. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Good Moral Character
Blame
Rhetoric
Decorum
37. 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
Hasty Generalization
Charisma
Burden of Rejoinder
38. 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'
Disassociation of Concepts
(Argument from) Cause
Blame
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
39. 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'
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
(Argument from) Testimony
Popular Democracy
Emotionally Charged (Language)
40. beginning repeated at ending
(Argument from) Cause
False Dichotomy
Epanalepsis
(Argument of ) General probability
41. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Appeal to Ignorance
Cure
Quantitative (significance)
Structural (inherency)
42. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Direct Refutation
Arguments
Argument
43. Good Moral Character
Plato
Hasty Generalization
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
44. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Litotes
Protagoras
Ethos
Appeal to Ignorance
45. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Modus Tollens
Litotes
Informal Debate
Cliche
46. Ending repeated
Sound
Good Moral Character
Exergasia
Epistrophe
47. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Locus of Quality
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Appeal to Ignorance
Parallelism
48. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Composition
Rhetoric
Deductive Reasoning
49. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Burden of Rejoinder
Rhetoric
Syllogism
Begging the Question
50. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Plato
Burden of Rejoinder
Hyperbole
Hypothetical (Syllogism)