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1. 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'
Anaphora
Ethos
(Argument from) Testimony
Appeal to Ignorance
2. Good Moral Character
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Quantitative (significance)
Correctio
Stock Issues
3. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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4. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Erotema
Modus Ponens
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
5. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Litotes
Refutation Potential
Epanalepsis
Composition
6. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
False Charge of Fallacy
Formal Logic
Good Moral Character
Non Sequitur
7. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Protagoras
Modus Ponens
Small Sample
8. 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
Qualitative (Stasis)
Appeal to Ignorance
Non Sequitur
9. Exaggeration
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Refutation Potential
Burden of Rejoinder
Hyperbole
10. Opposite of Hyperbole
Correctio
Litotes
(Special Topoi for) Science
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
11. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Fallacies
Status
Burden of proof
Non Sequitur
12. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Tu Quoque
Hyperbole
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Archetypal (Metaphor)
13. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Locus of Essence
Popular Democracy
Burden of Rejoinder
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
14. An argument with true premises and valid form
Sound
Fallacies
Anadiplosis
Ethos
15. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Anadiplosis
Definitional (Stasis)
(Fallacy of) Accident
Arguments
16. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Checking for Narrative argument
Informal Debate
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
17. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Tu Quoque
Plato
(Argument from) Narrative
18. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Turn
Refutation Potential
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Plato
19. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Sophist
Decorum
20. 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'
Unequivocal
Analogy
(Argument from) Sign
Blame
21. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Division
Appeal to Ignorance
Decision Rules
Tools of Refutation
22. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
Checking for Narrative argument
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Situationally flawed
23. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Informal Debate
Division
Composition
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
24. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Simile
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Second (or) Third
Accident
25. The list that builds
Epistrophe
Charisma
Consistency
Incrementum
26. 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
Manufactroversy
Metaphor
Intelligence
Archetypal (Metaphor)
27. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Burden of proof
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Hyperbole
Blame
28. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
False Dichotomy
Begging the Question
Appeal to Ignorance
Tokenism
29. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.
Straw Person
Cliche
Syllogism
Vehicle (and) Tenor
30. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Enthymeme
Rhetoric
31. Opposite of Epistrophe
Anaphora
Gorgias
Metaphor
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
32. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Tools of Refutation
Appeal to Authority
(Argument from) Cause
First
33. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Ignorance
Value-Oriented Arguments
Simile
34. Ending repeated
Simile
Epistrophe
Definitional (Stasis)
Tools of Refutation
35. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Example
Hyperbole
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Decorum
36. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Grounds (or data)
Metaphor
Checking for Narrative argument
Stasis
37. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Cure
Checking for Sign argument
Appeal to Authority
Division
38. 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
Enthymeme
Epistrophe
Locus of Existence
Decision Rules
39. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Shifting the Burden of Proof
(Argument of ) General probability
Commonplaces
40. Understatement
Epistrophe
Litotes
Erotema
Formal Logic
41. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Red Herring
Locus of Existence
Grounds (or data)
Refutation Potential
42. Structure repeated
Informal Debate
Parallelism
Blame
Checking for Example argument
43. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Stock Issues
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
44. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Tu Quoque
Debate Resolutions
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Intelligence
45. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Valid
Red Herring
Burden of proof
Erotema
46. 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.
Sound
Cliche
Correctio
Debate Resolutions
47. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Aristotle
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Correctio
48. 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
Burden of Rejoinder
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Debate Resolutions
(Argument by) Analogy
49. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Claim
Rhetoric
Questionable Cause
Metaphor
50. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Blame
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Anaphora
Claim