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1. 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
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Hasty Generalization
Exergasia
Epanalepsis
2. 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?
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Checking for Sign argument
Burden of proof
3. 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?
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Litotes
Checking for Example argument
Shifting the Burden of Proof
4. Beginning repeated
Tu Quoque
Anaphora
Anadiplosis
(Special Topoi for) Science
5. 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?
Fallacies
Decorum
Exergasia
Checking for Testimony argument
6. 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'
Sign
(Argument by) Example
Questionable Analogy
Unrepresentative Sample
7. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Incrementum
Division
Non Sequitur
8. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
(Argument by) Analogy
Parallelism
Conceding Arguments
Epanalepsis
9. 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'
Ad Hominem
Epanalepsis
Metaphor
Gorgias
10. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
(Argument from) Cause
Refutation
Correctio
(Argument from) Sign
11. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Enthymeme
Claim
Composition
Personification
12. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Claim
Unsound
Analogy
13. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Equivocation
First
Exergasia
Manufactroversy
14. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Decorum
Euphimism
Ethos
(Argument from) Testimony
15. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Intelligence
Disassociation of Concepts
(Special Topoi for) Science
16. Term with higher (positive) value
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Refutation Strategies
17. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Consistency
Exergasia
Attitudinal (inherency)
Unsound
18. 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
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Begging the Question
Red Herring
False Dichotomy
19. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Checking for Cause argement
Ill
Protagoras
Sign
20. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Division
Epistrophe
(Argument by) Analogy
Categorical (Syllogism)
21. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Tu Quoque
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Anaphora
Unrepresentative Sample
22. Reasoning from case to case
Protagoras
Checking for Narrative argument
Analogy
Questionable Analogy
23. 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'
(Argument from) Testimony
Commonplaces
Correctio
Metaphor
24. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Parallelism
Gorgias
Composition
Argument
25. 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
Situationally flawed
Exergasia
Rhetoric
Refutation
26. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Sound
Questionable Analogy
Appeal to Ignorance
Division
27. 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.
Disassociation of Concepts
Questionable Analogy
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
28. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Sound
Anaphora
Division
29. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
30. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Isocrates
Attitudinal (inherency)
Term I/Term II
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
31. 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
Tools of Refutation
Euphimism
Situationally flawed
32. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
(Argument by) Example
Locus of Quality
Unequivocal
Plato
33. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Cost
Anadiplosis
Grounds (or data)
Direct Refutation
34. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Ethos
False Charge of Fallacy
Term I/Term II
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
35. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'
Non Sequitur
Locus of Essence
Loci of the Preferable
Blame
36. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Decision Rules
(Argument from) Testimony
Burden of proof
37. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Epistrophe
Erotema
Unrepresentative Sample
38. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'
Anadiplosis
(Argument from) Narrative
Good Will (Ethos)
Syllogism
39. The list that builds
(Argument from) Testimony
Incrementum
Modus Ponens
(Fallacy of) Accident
40. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Fallacy Fallacy
Blame
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Good Moral Character
41. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Fallacy Fallacy
(Special Topoi for) Science
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Euphimism
42. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
Begging the Question
(Argument by) Example
Questionable Analogy
43. 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
Begging the Question
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Hyperbole
Ill
44. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Anadiplosis
Debate Resolutions
Tu Quoque
45. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Aristotle
Tu Quoque
Warrant
46. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population
Small Sample
Structural (inherency)
Modus Tollens
Euphimism
47. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Popular Democracy
Enthymeme
False Dichotomy
Corax
48. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Status
Parallelism
Rhetoric
Personification
49. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Prolepsis
Questionable Cause
Litotes
50. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Cost
Burden of Rejoinder
Blame
Shifting the Burden of Proof