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1. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Tu Quoque
Cliche
Burden of Rejoinder
Refutation Strategies
2. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Claim
Popular Democracy
Equivocation
False Charge of Fallacy
3. 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
Blame
Debate Resolutions
Checking for Narrative argument
Categorical (Syllogism)
4. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Ambiguity
Quantitative (significance)
Locus of Quality
Personification
5. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Value-Oriented Arguments
Appeal to Authority
Attitudinal (inherency)
Tisias
6. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Fallacies
Ill
Cliche
Unequivocal
7. 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'
(Argument from) Narrative
Checking for Example argument
Composition
Stasis
8. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Stock Issues
Syllogism
(Argument from) Testimony
Toulmin Model
9. Ask a rhetorical question
Litotes
Decorum
Erotema
Epanalepsis
10. Structure repeated
Small Sample
Parallelism
Stock Issues
Agree on Commonality then refute
11. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Toulmin Model
Locus of Essence
Argument
Sign
12. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Locus of Essence
Simile
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
13. 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
Checking for Cause argement
Syllogism
Turn
Agree on Commonality then refute
14. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Second
Deductive Reasoning
Charisma
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
15. An argument that follows proper logical form
Value-Oriented Arguments
Hasty Generalization
Valid
Protagoras
16. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Syllogism
Cure
Euphimism
Parallelism
17. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Tisias
Hasty Generalization
Refutation
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
18. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Tu Quoque
Structural (inherency)
Litotes
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
19. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
False Charge of Fallacy
Red Herring
Mixed Metaphor
Burden of proof
20. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Antithesis
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
(Argument by) Example
Stock Issues
21. Understatement
Blame
Litotes
Small Sample
Unequivocal
22. An argument with true premises and valid form
Stock Issues
Sound
Tu Quoque
Correctio
23. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Begging the Question
Epanalepsis
Parallelism
24. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Plato
Rhetoric
Grounds (or data)
(Argument by) Example
25. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Categorical (Syllogism)
Toulmin Model
Tu Quoque
Hasty Generalization
26. 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'
Modus Ponens
False Dichotomy
(Argument from) Sign
Modus Tollens
27. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Associated Commonplaces
Appeal to Authority
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Plato
28. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
Incrementum
Ambiguity
Modus Tollens
29. 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
Parallelism
Warrant
False Charge of Fallacy
30. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Exergasia
Refutation
Toulmin Model
Informal Debate
31. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Locus of Essence
Deductive Reasoning
Hyperbole
Charisma
32. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Special Topoi
(Argument by) Example
(Argument from) Cause
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
33. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Testimony
Manufactroversy
Locus of Existence
Hyperbole
34. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
First
Attitudinal (inherency)
Red Herring
Ill
35. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Turn
False Dichotomy
Narrative
Value-Oriented Arguments
36. 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)
Informal Debate
Epanalepsis
Appeal to Ignorance
Fallacy Fallacy
37. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Manufactroversy
Accident
Appeal to Ignorance
Fallacies
38. 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
Rhetoric
Sophist
(Fallacy of) Accident
Small Sample
39. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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40. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Quantitative (significance)
Hyperbole
Checking for Cause argement
Narrative
41. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Second
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Anadiplosis
Grounds (or data)
42. Beginning repeated
Anaphora
Erotema
Protagoras
Rhetoric
43. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Warrant
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Conceding Arguments
Procedural (Stasis)
44. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Begging the Question
Tools of Refutation
Epistrophe
Simile
45. 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.
Cure
Debate Resolutions
Appeal to Ignorance
Antithesis
46. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Epistrophe
Burden of Rejoinder
Locus of Existence
47. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Questionable Analogy
Mercenary Scientists
Refutation Strategies
(Argument from) Testimony
48. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Mercenary Scientists
Argument
Cost
49. 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?
Checking for Cause argement
Structural (inherency)
Checking for Narrative argument
Enthymeme
50. 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'
Tokenism
(Argument by) Example
Enthymeme
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)