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1. Opposite of Epistrophe
Hyperbole
Anaphora
Appeal to Ignorance
Commonplaces
2. 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
Tu Quoque
False Dichotomy
Composition
3. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Good Will (Ethos)
Quantitative (significance)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Aristotle
4. Opposite of Hyperbole
Gorgias
Litotes
Ad Populum
Argument
5. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'
Ad Hominem
(Argument from) Sign
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Erotema
6. Term with lower (negative) value
Epistrophe
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Anadiplosis
7. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Litotes
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Categorical (Syllogism)
8. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Epistrophe
Good Moral Character
Conjectural (Stasis)
Litotes
9. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Rhetoric
Stock Issues
Value Hierarchies
Appeal to Authority
10. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
(Argument from) Cause
Mercenary Scientists
Anadiplosis
Exergasia
11. Set two things in opposition
(Fallacy of) Accident
Euphimism
Ill
Antithesis
12. 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
Protagoras
Manufactroversy
Epistrophe
Ad Hominem
13. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Formal Logic
Erotema
Litotes
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
14. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Fallacies
Good Will (Ethos)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
15. Opposite of anadiplosis
Testimony
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Epanalepsis
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
16. Focuses on inadequacies or problems in the status quo - must be significant if a change is to be made. Must Have: 1. Quantitative significance: affects lots of people 2. Qualitative significance: is of bad quality
Ill
Begging the Question
Cost
Rhetoric
17. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Antithesis
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Rhetoric
Ambiguity
18. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Corax
Division
Deductive Reasoning
Arguments
19. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Euphimism
Direct Refutation
(Argument from) Testimony
Tu Quoque
20. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Erotema
Tisias
Toulmin Model
Refutation
21. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Analogy
Ad Hominem
Exergasia
Rhetoric
22. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Isocrates
False Charge of Fallacy
Vehicle (and) Tenor
23. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Checking for Example argument
Anadiplosis
Epanalepsis
24. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Antithesis
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
(Argument by) Example
25. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Quantitative (significance)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Agree on Commonality then refute
Status
26. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Prolepsis
Cost
Tokenism
Fallacies
27. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Decorum
Exergasia
Commonplaces
28. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
False Dichotomy
Parallelism
Good Moral Character
29. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'
Antithesis
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Disassociation of Concepts
Conceding Arguments
30. 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
Checking for Testimony argument
Tu Quoque
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
31. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B
Mercenary Scientists
Categorical (Syllogism)
Warrant
Epanalepsis
32. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Blame
Plato
(Argument by) Example
Commonplaces
33. Structure repeated
Parallelism
Special Topoi
Commonplaces
Isocrates
34. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Locus of Quality
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Prolepsis
35. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Anadiplosis
Appeal to Ignorance
Composition
Mercenary Scientists
36. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Epistrophe
Grounds (or data)
Equivocation
(Argument by) Analogy
37. Ask a rhetorical question
Erotema
Second
Litotes
Formal Debate
38. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Litotes
Checking for Cause argement
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Hasty Generalization
39. 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
Attitudinal (inherency)
Loci of the Preferable
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Personification
40. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Hyperbole
(Argument of ) General probability
Prolepsis
Definitional (Stasis)
41. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Locus of Quality
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Analogy
Turn
42. 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:
Blame
Correctio
(Argument of ) General probability
Second (or) Third
43. The list that builds
Incrementum
Epistrophe
Begging the Question
Small Sample
44. 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
Decision Rules
Hasty Generalization
Epistrophe
Fallacy Fallacy
45. 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?
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Tu Quoque
(Argument of ) General probability
Checking for Analogy argument
46. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Epanalepsis
Quantitative (significance)
Checking for Sign argument
Ad Populum
47. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Epanalepsis
Narrative
Small Sample
48. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Locus of Existence
Checking for Cause argement
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Blame
49. beginning repeated at ending
Intelligence
Division
Epanalepsis
Plato
50. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Litotes
Informal Debate
Metaphor
Commonplaces