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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Litotes
Ad Populum
Red Herring
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
2. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Burden of Rejoinder
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
(Argument by) Example
3. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Checking for Cause argement
Value Hierarchies
Small Sample
4. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Tools of Refutation
Checking for Example argument
Incrementum
Cost
5. 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'
Status
Ad Hominem
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Checking for Testimony argument
6. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Exergasia
Hasty Generalization
Tu Quoque
Popular Democracy
7. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Ad Hominem
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Epistrophe
8. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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9. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Personification
(Argument from) Narrative
Cliche
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
10. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Good Will (Ethos)
Blame
Quantitative (significance)
Appeal to Ignorance
11. 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.
First
Questionable Analogy
Incrementum
Appeal to Authority
12. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Value-Oriented Arguments
Mercenary Scientists
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Unrepresentative Sample
13. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Begging the Question
Checking for Analogy argument
Stock Issues
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
14. Opposite of anadiplosis
Epanalepsis
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Personification
Syllogism
15. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Narrative
Situationally flawed
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Stasis
16. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Value-Oriented Arguments
Anadiplosis
(Fallacy of) Accident
Toulmin Model
17. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Aristotle
Straw Person
Manufactroversy
Ambiguity
18. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Cost
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Composition
19. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Cost
Composition
Questionable Analogy
Locus of Essence
20. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Valid
21. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
Appeal to Authority
(Argument by) Example
Valid
22. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Syllogism
Plato
Warrant
Red Herring
23. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Arguments
Isocrates
Prolepsis
24. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
First
False Charge of Fallacy
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Equivocation
25. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Mixed Metaphor
Ethos
Epanalepsis
Ad Populum
26. beginning repeated at ending
Charisma
Fallacies
Epanalepsis
Locus of Quantity
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)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Fallacy Fallacy
Epanalepsis
Argument
28. Ask a rhetorical question
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Ambiguity
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Erotema
29. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Hasty Generalization
Gorgias
Cost
Refutation
30. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Locus of Quantity
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Decision Rules
31. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Corax
Correctio
Status
32. Oral performances that have a set format in which two or more speakers take turns making arguments and counterarguments before an audience - Examples: Court room - candidate debates - academic debates
Incrementum
Tu Quoque
Manufactroversy
Formal Debate
33. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Formal Logic
Appeal to Authority
Anadiplosis
Good Will (Ethos)
34. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Plato
Valid
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Direct Refutation
35. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Cure
Simile
Categorical (Syllogism)
Blame
36. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Red Herring
Protagoras
Syllogism
37. What vehicles and tenors share
Turn
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Associated Commonplaces
38. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Decision Rules
Term I/Term II
Definitional (Stasis)
Isocrates
39. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Disassociation of Concepts
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
(Argument by) Analogy
40. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Isocrates
Example
Warrant
Refutation Strategies
41. Understatement
Litotes
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Categorical (Syllogism)
42. Set two things in opposition
Popular Democracy
Protagoras
Epistrophe
Antithesis
43. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Equivocation
Fallacies
Status
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
44. If A then B A Therefore B
(Argument of ) General probability
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Modus Ponens
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
45. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals
Agree on Commonality then refute
Hyperbole
Special Topoi
Hyperbole
46. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Begging the Question
Ambiguity
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Categorical (Syllogism)
47. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Metaphor
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Hyperbole
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
48. An argument that follows proper logical form
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Valid
(Argument of ) General probability
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
49. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Categorical (Syllogism)
Exergasia
50. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Structural (inherency)
Anadiplosis
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Decision Rules