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1. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Good Moral Character
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Gorgias
Rhetoric
2. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Ad Populum
Attitudinal (inherency)
Conceding Arguments
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
3. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Charisma
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Formal Logic
Appeal to Ignorance
4. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Deductive Reasoning
Epistrophe
Tokenism
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
5. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Stock Issues
Corax
Anaphora
Checking for Narrative argument
6. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Ad Hominem
Example
False Dichotomy
Commonplaces
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
Ethos
Questionable Analogy
Decision Rules
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
8. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Blame
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Litotes
9. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Ad Hominem
Narrative
Epanalepsis
Red Herring
10. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Non Sequitur
Refutation Strategies
11. Term with higher (positive) value
Checking for Cause argement
Hasty Generalization
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Good Will (Ethos)
12. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Ambiguity
Blame
Epanalepsis
(Special Topoi for) Science
13. 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?
Ill
Checking for Analogy argument
Rhetoric
Conjectural (Stasis)
14. An argument with true premises and valid form
Sound
Syllogism
Checking for Narrative argument
Anaphora
15. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Euphimism
Epistrophe
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Mixed Metaphor
16. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Composition
Anaphora
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
17. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Locus of Quality
Fallacies
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Debate Resolutions
18. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Metaphor
Checking for Example argument
Definitional (Stasis)
Rhetoric
19. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Accident
Attitudinal (inherency)
Refutation
20. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Sound
Sign
Manufactroversy
False Dichotomy
21. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Presumption
Equivocation
Appeal to Ignorance
Cliche
22. 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
Valid
Antithesis
Hasty Generalization
Testimony
23. 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
Antithesis
Definitional (Stasis)
Metaphor
24. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
(Argument from) Testimony
Appeal to Ignorance
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
25. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Division
Stock Issues
26. 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
Warrant
(Argument from) Cause
Red Herring
27. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Checking for Narrative argument
Unequivocal
Presumption
Valid
28. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Epanalepsis
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
29. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Consistency
Ethos
Procedural (Stasis)
Attitudinal (inherency)
30. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Accident
Appeal to Authority
(Argument from) Narrative
Popular Democracy
31. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Formal Logic
Ambiguity
Fallacies
Isocrates
32. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Litotes
(Argument of ) General probability
Aristotle
Emotionally Charged (Language)
33. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Metaphor
Stasis
Loci of the Preferable
Erotema
34. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Appeal to Ignorance
Cure
Charisma
Anaphora
35. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Epanalepsis
Red Herring
Sign
36. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Consistency
Example
Checking for Analogy argument
37. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Metaphor
Testimony
Categorical (Syllogism)
38. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
Straw Person
Enthymeme
Protagoras
39. 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?
Checking for Example argument
Gorgias
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Categorical (Syllogism)
40. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true
Personification
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Incrementum
Second
41. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Term I/Term II
Checking for Cause argement
Aristotle
Value Hierarchies
42. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Attitudinal (inherency)
Hasty Generalization
Parallelism
Litotes
43. 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:
Questionable Cause
Modus Tollens
Blame
Informal Debate
44. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Locus of Existence
Sign
Hyperbole
Mercenary Scientists
45. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Hyperbole
(Argument from) Testimony
Litotes
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
46. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Presumption
Antithesis
Rhetoric
Loci of the Preferable
47. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Appeal to Ignorance
Cost
Tu Quoque
Associated Commonplaces
48. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Composition
Equivocation
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
49. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Composition
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Anaphora
Qualitative (Stasis)
50. beginning repeated at ending
Epanalepsis
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Euphimism
Hyperbole
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