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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What vehicles and tenors share
Decorum
Hasty Generalization
Fallacies
Associated Commonplaces
2. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Second
Tools of Refutation
Equivocation
3. Term with lower (negative) value
Structural (inherency)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Ill
4. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Anadiplosis
False Dichotomy
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Sign
5. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Division
Sign
Situationally flawed
6. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
Modus Ponens
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Loci of the Preferable
7. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Ill
Value-Oriented Arguments
Blame
Anadiplosis
8. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Locus of Essence
Formal Debate
Analogy
Aristotle
9. 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.
Composition
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Analogy
Disassociation of Concepts
10. Oppostite of Litotes
Hyperbole
Burden of proof
Litotes
Mixed Metaphor
11. Exaggeration
Sign
(Argument from) Testimony
Analogy
Hyperbole
12. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Associated Commonplaces
Loci of the Preferable
Refutation Strategies
Metaphor
13. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Appeal to Authority
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Vehicle (and) Tenor
(Argument by) Example
14. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Rhetoric
Good Will (Ethos)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Epistrophe
15. Beginning repeated
Sophist
Tisias
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Anaphora
16. 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
Appeal to Ignorance
Rhetoric
Euphimism
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
17. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Arguments
Burden of Rejoinder
Tu Quoque
Rhetoric
18. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Metaphor
False Charge of Fallacy
Locus of Quantity
Rhetoric
19. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Commonplaces
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Checking for Example argument
Conjectural (Stasis)
20. 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
Sophist
Epistrophe
Stock Issues
21. 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?
Checking for Testimony argument
Quantitative (significance)
Cliche
Exergasia
22. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Antithesis
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
23. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Appeal to Authority
Stasis
Sign
Locus of Essence
24. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
(Argument from) Sign
(Argument from) Narrative
Checking for Cause argement
Isocrates
25. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Sign
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Antithesis
Emotionally Charged (Language)
26. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Questionable Cause
Epanalepsis
Stock Issues
False Dichotomy
27. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Definitional (Stasis)
Exergasia
Checking for Example argument
Stasis
28. Reasoning from case to case
Analogy
Checking for Analogy argument
Burden of proof
Rhetoric
29. 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
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Tools of Refutation
Rhetoric
Informal Debate
30. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Sophist
Gorgias
31. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
(Argument from) Cause
Composition
Refutation Potential
Argument
32. 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
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Cliche
Categorical (Syllogism)
Valid
33. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Quantitative (significance)
Formal Debate
Metaphor
Anaphora
34. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Appeal to Authority
Quantitative (significance)
Personification
Correctio
35. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Arguments
Unsound
Charisma
Presumption
36. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Decorum
Refutation
Procedural (Stasis)
37. 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
Isocrates
Accident
Example
38. Good Moral Character
Hyperbole
Epanalepsis
Attitudinal (inherency)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
39. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Exergasia
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Simile
Prolepsis
40. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Procedural (Stasis)
Grounds (or data)
Ad Populum
Checking for Example argument
41. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Argument
Rhetoric
Cost
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
42. 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'
Hyperbole
(Argument by) Analogy
Unrepresentative Sample
(Argument from) Testimony
43. Circular Reasoning
Tokenism
Categorical (Syllogism)
Begging the Question
Good Will (Ethos)
44. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Attitudinal (inherency)
Anaphora
Litotes
Hasty Generalization
45. Term with higher (positive) value
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Analogy
Litotes
Refutation Potential
46. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Plato
Situationally flawed
(Argument by) Analogy
Value-Oriented Arguments
47. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Grounds (or data)
Term I/Term II
Modus Tollens
Parallelism
48. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Non Sequitur
Epistrophe
Common Practice (Fallacy)
49. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Hyperbole
Epistrophe
Locus of Quantity
Parallelism
50. 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
Value-Oriented Arguments
Term I/Term II
Formal Debate
Argument