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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 _____ ______
False Charge of Fallacy
Conceding Arguments
Refutation Strategies
Modus Tollens
2. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Arguments
Quantitative (significance)
Tu Quoque
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
3. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Tu Quoque
False Dichotomy
Deductive Reasoning
4. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Anaphora
Appeal to Ignorance
Turn
Unequivocal
5. Understatement
Litotes
Begging the Question
Quantitative (significance)
Informal Debate
6. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Testimony
Qualitative (Stasis)
Locus of Essence
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
7. 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
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Modus Ponens
Division
Decision Rules
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
Special Topoi
Refutation Strategies
Manufactroversy
Analogy
9. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Categorical (Syllogism)
Small Sample
Analogy
Deductive Reasoning
10. Ideas repeated
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Cliche
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Exergasia
11. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Mercenary Scientists
Second (or) Third
Procedural (Stasis)
Erotema
12. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Red Herring
Cliche
Checking for Narrative argument
Unrepresentative Sample
13. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Parallelism
Anadiplosis
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Rhetoric
14. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Locus of Existence
Correctio
Situationally flawed
Red Herring
15. Opposite of Anaphora
Cost
Refutation
Warrant
Epistrophe
16. 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'
(Argument from) Sign
Status
Special Topoi
(Argument by) Example
17. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Tu Quoque
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Second
Litotes
18. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Ad Populum
Testimony
Second (or) Third
19. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Deductive Reasoning
Arguments
Definitional (Stasis)
Turn
20. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Equivocation
(Argument by) Analogy
Anaphora
Erotema
21. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Corax
Hyperbole
Equivocation
Argument
22. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Conceding Arguments
Appeal to Ignorance
Term I/Term II
23. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
Metaphor
Antithesis
Definitional (Stasis)
24. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Decorum
Fallacies
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Litotes
25. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Anaphora
Informal Debate
Erotema
26. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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27. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Blame
Ill
Anadiplosis
Epistrophe
28. 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
Agree on Commonality then refute
Rhetoric
Ill
Valid
29. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Consistency
Situationally flawed
Epanalepsis
Mixed Metaphor
30. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Questionable Analogy
Structural (inherency)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
31. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Composition
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Fallacies
Cure
32. 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
Tu Quoque
Burden of Rejoinder
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Qualitative (Stasis)
33. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Mercenary Scientists
Plato
Intelligence
Division
34. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Charisma
Non Sequitur
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Enthymeme
35. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Erotema
Non Sequitur
Metaphor
Special Topoi
36. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Narrative
Decision Rules
Erotema
37. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Begging the Question
Debate Resolutions
Procedural (Stasis)
Argument
38. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Popular Democracy
Grounds (or data)
Charisma
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
39. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Ad Hominem
Checking for Testimony argument
Qualitative (Stasis)
Testimony
40. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
(Argument by) Example
Erotema
Appeal to Authority
(Special Topoi for) Science
41. If A then B B Therefore - A
(Argument from) Cause
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Checking for Narrative argument
Ill
42. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Term I/Term II
Sophist
Epanalepsis
43. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Argument
First
Correctio
Informal Debate
44. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Litotes
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Hyperbole
(Argument from) Sign
45. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Argument
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Cost
46. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Structural (inherency)
Warrant
Formal Debate
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
47. 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
(Argument by) Example
Small Sample
Hyperbole
48. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Hasty Generalization
Deductive Reasoning
Non Sequitur
Accident
49. 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'
Composition
Debate Resolutions
Ad Hominem
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
50. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Claim
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Checking for Analogy argument
Protagoras