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1. Circular Reasoning
Ethos
Litotes
Stasis
Begging the Question
2. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Tools of Refutation
Status
Questionable Cause
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
3. Oppostite of Litotes
Hyperbole
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Intelligence
Small Sample
4. 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
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Accident
Epanalepsis
Rhetoric
5. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Ill
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Warrant
6. 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
Exergasia
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Euphimism
7. 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:
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Loci of the Preferable
Blame
(Argument by) Analogy
8. 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
Erotema
Manufactroversy
Appeal to Authority
Value-Oriented Arguments
9. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Appeal to Authority
Epanalepsis
Special Topoi
Checking for Narrative argument
10. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Questionable Analogy
Tu Quoque
Attitudinal (inherency)
Anadiplosis
11. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Narrative
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Valid
Modus Ponens
12. 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?
Structural (inherency)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Euphimism
Checking for Sign argument
13. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Argument
Tisias
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Tu Quoque
14. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
First
Hyperbole
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Appeal to Ignorance
15. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Tu Quoque
Anadiplosis
Sign
Composition
16. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.
Straw Person
Blame
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Qualitative (Stasis)
17. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Gorgias
Tools of Refutation
Deductive Reasoning
18. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Formal Logic
Red Herring
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument from) Testimony
19. 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?
Special Topoi
Tisias
Checking for Example argument
Conjectural (Stasis)
20. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Erotema
Ad Populum
Categorical (Syllogism)
Procedural (Stasis)
21. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Mercenary Scientists
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Sophist
Charisma
22. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Fallacy Fallacy
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Epanalepsis
Composition
23. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Locus of Quantity
Charisma
Structural (inherency)
Red Herring
24. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Tools of Refutation
Rhetoric
Conceding Arguments
Syllogism
25. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Blame
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Hasty Generalization
Direct Refutation
26. 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.
Modus Tollens
Refutation Potential
Disassociation of Concepts
Epanalepsis
27. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Parallelism
Ethos
Isocrates
Intelligence
28. Beginning repeated
Anadiplosis
Anaphora
Cost
(Argument from) Narrative
29. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Prolepsis
Enthymeme
Euphimism
Sign
30. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
Associated Commonplaces
Antithesis
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
31. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Locus of Quality
Informal Debate
Cost
Modus Ponens
32. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Anaphora
Locus of Quantity
Ad Hominem
(Argument from) Cause
33. The inference moves from specific to general or from general to specific. The warrant to this argument usually reads 'what is true in this case is true in general' or 'what is true in general is true in this case'
Turn
(Argument by) Example
Second
(Argument by) Analogy
34. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Burden of Rejoinder
Antithesis
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
35. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Parallelism
Epistrophe
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Enthymeme
36. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Appeal to Ignorance
Second
Tokenism
Non Sequitur
37. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Direct Refutation
Begging the Question
38. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Epanalepsis
Epanalepsis
Loci of the Preferable
39. Understatement
Rhetoric
Mixed Metaphor
Metaphor
Litotes
40. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Metaphor
Modus Tollens
Questionable Analogy
Qualitative (Stasis)
41. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Ill
Status
Anaphora
Division
42. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Modus Ponens
Refutation
(Argument from) Cause
Questionable Analogy
43. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Formal Logic
Burden of proof
Locus of Essence
Litotes
44. 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
Associated Commonplaces
Rhetoric
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
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?
Checking for Analogy argument
Ad Populum
Tu Quoque
Decorum
46. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Gorgias
Term I/Term II
Locus of Essence
Sign
47. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Corax
Tu Quoque
Intelligence
Valid
48. Ask a rhetorical question
Protagoras
Erotema
Second
Value-Oriented Arguments
49. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Parallelism
Charisma
Metaphor
50. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Tools of Refutation
(Fallacy of) Accident
Blame
Second (or) Third