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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous






2. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






3. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning






4. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.






5. 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'






6. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members






7. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






8. Ask a rhetorical question






9. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






10. 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'






11. 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?






12. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?






13. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole






14. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.






15. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






16. 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






17. Reasoning from case to case






18. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible






19. Opposite of Anaphora






20. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?






21. Ideas repeated






22. 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)






23. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






24. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






25. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.






26. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C






27. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






28. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






29. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category






30. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)






31. Ending repeated






32. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






33. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth






34. Opposite of Epanalepsis






35. 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






36. 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






37. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.






38. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






39. 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






40. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






41. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'






42. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C






43. Deliberate correction






44. 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






45. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original






46. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares






47. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






48. 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.






49. 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?






50. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another