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Public Debating
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1. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Non Sequitur
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
2. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Blame
Questionable Analogy
Narrative
3. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Checking for Testimony argument
Appeal to Authority
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
(Special Topoi for) Science
4. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Begging the Question
Gorgias
Anadiplosis
5. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Definitional (Stasis)
Litotes
Warrant
Equivocation
6. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Locus of Existence
Value Hierarchies
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
7. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacies
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Euphimism
Division
8. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Rhetoric
Division
Epanalepsis
Begging the Question
9. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
(Argument by) Example
Begging the Question
Unequivocal
Sound
10. 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) Cause
Locus of Essence
Checking for Cause argement
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
11. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Begging the Question
Vehicle (and) Tenor
False Charge of Fallacy
12. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Categorical (Syllogism)
Personification
Red Herring
Tools of Refutation
13. beginning repeated at ending
Situationally flawed
Rhetoric
Epanalepsis
Attitudinal (inherency)
14. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Sophist
Consistency
Intelligence
Loci of the Preferable
15. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Anadiplosis
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Example
Tu Quoque
16. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Exergasia
Debate Resolutions
Hyperbole
17. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Narrative
Isocrates
Second (or) Third
Blame
18. Term with higher (positive) value
Stasis
Litotes
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
19. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Mercenary Scientists
Exergasia
Blame
20. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Unrepresentative Sample
Ad Populum
Appeal to Authority
Formal Logic
21. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Protagoras
Informal Debate
Sophist
22. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Begging the Question
Appeal to Authority
Checking for Testimony argument
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
23. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Attitudinal (inherency)
Decorum
Informal Debate
Anadiplosis
24. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Incrementum
Qualitative (Stasis)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Cliche
25. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Attitudinal (inherency)
Tu Quoque
Informal Debate
Value-Oriented Arguments
26. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Informal Debate
Cure
Status
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
27. 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)
Narrative
Euphimism
Unrepresentative Sample
Fallacy Fallacy
28. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Unequivocal
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Epistrophe
Euphimism
29. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Checking for Analogy argument
Tisias
Rhetoric
30. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Unsound
Antithesis
Claim
Division
31. Opposite of Hyperbole
Parallelism
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Litotes
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
32. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Exergasia
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Structural (inherency)
Modus Ponens
33. An argument that follows proper logical form
Hyperbole
Valid
Modus Ponens
Refutation
34. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Metaphor
Small Sample
Euphimism
Ad Populum
35. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Second (or) Third
Tools of Refutation
Formal Debate
Isocrates
36. Opposite of Anaphora
First
Tokenism
Epistrophe
Non Sequitur
37. Deliberate correction
Arguments
Correctio
Accident
Consistency
38. Circular Reasoning
Antithesis
Conjectural (Stasis)
Deductive Reasoning
Begging the Question
39. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Composition
Sound
Hasty Generalization
Categorical (Syllogism)
40. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
(Argument by) Example
Hasty Generalization
Second
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
41. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Tu Quoque
Hyperbole
Conjectural (Stasis)
Erotema
42. 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.
Second
Disassociation of Concepts
Personification
Mixed Metaphor
43. 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
First
(Special Topoi for) Science
Checking for Example argument
Manufactroversy
44. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Correctio
Refutation Strategies
Burden of Rejoinder
Questionable Analogy
45. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Antithesis
Tools of Refutation
Refutation
Composition
46. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Litotes
Burden of Rejoinder
Accident
First
47. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Simile
Exergasia
Appeal to Ignorance
48. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Term I/Term II
Parallelism
Sign
49. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Sign
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Unrepresentative Sample
50. 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'
Equivocation
Antithesis
(Argument from) Sign
Metaphor
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