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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Sophist
Ambiguity
Decision Rules
2. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Rhetoric
(Argument from) Sign
Sign
Appeal to Ignorance
3. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Blame
Litotes
Fallacies
4. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Epistrophe
Structural (inherency)
Conceding Arguments
Stasis
5. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
False Charge of Fallacy
Direct Refutation
Locus of Existence
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
6. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'
Ad Hominem
Anaphora
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Popular Democracy
7. 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
Deductive Reasoning
Charisma
Situationally flawed
8. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
(Argument of ) General probability
Non Sequitur
Locus of Existence
Mercenary Scientists
9. Understatement
Litotes
Tools of Refutation
Categorical (Syllogism)
Arguments
10. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Hyperbole
Euphimism
Equivocation
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
11. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
12. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Exergasia
Stock Issues
False Dichotomy
Hyperbole
13. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec
(Argument by) Analogy
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Epistrophe
14. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Accident
Checking for Example argument
Special Topoi
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
15. Opposite of Anaphora
Anaphora
Manufactroversy
Epistrophe
Fallacy Fallacy
16. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Begging the Question
Sign
17. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
Epistrophe
Antithesis
Cliche
18. The list that builds
Status
Analogy
Second
Incrementum
19. 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
Situationally flawed
Good Moral Character
Tu Quoque
Loci of the Preferable
20. An argument that follows proper logical form
Rhetoric
Plato
Valid
Anaphora
21. Deliberate correction
Disassociation of Concepts
Correctio
False Dichotomy
Division
22. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
(Special Topoi for) Science
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Epanalepsis
Antithesis
23. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Sign
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Ambiguity
Unrepresentative Sample
24. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Refutation Potential
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Locus of Existence
Charisma
25. 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
Euphimism
Checking for Testimony argument
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Ill
26. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Blame
Status
Hyperbole
Plato
27. 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
Antithesis
Red Herring
Direct Refutation
Vehicle (and) Tenor
28. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Locus of Quantity
Burden of proof
Euphimism
Rhetoric
29. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Aristotle
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Turn
Antithesis
30. 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
Checking for Cause argement
Cure
Argument
31. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Composition
Straw Person
Erotema
Disassociation of Concepts
32. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Checking for Analogy argument
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Tokenism
Hasty Generalization
33. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Grounds (or data)
Locus of Existence
(Argument from) Testimony
Accident
34. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Narrative
Appeal to Ignorance
Good Moral Character
Checking for Narrative argument
35. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Accident
Epistrophe
Refutation
Conjectural (Stasis)
36. Ideas repeated
Cure
Exergasia
Status
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
37. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Composition
Definitional (Stasis)
Burden of Rejoinder
Plato
38. Set two things in opposition
Second (or) Third
Appeal to Authority
Situationally flawed
Antithesis
39. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Deductive Reasoning
Associated Commonplaces
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
40. 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.
(Argument by) Analogy
Rhetoric
Anaphora
Disassociation of Concepts
41. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Warrant
Non Sequitur
Sophist
Erotema
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'
(Argument from) Testimony
Begging the Question
Tu Quoque
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
43. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Debate Resolutions
Cure
Decorum
44. 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.
Tools of Refutation
Begging the Question
(Argument from) Testimony
Modus Tollens
45. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Locus of Essence
(Argument by) Analogy
Argument
Burden of proof
46. Opposite of Epistrophe
Parallelism
Ad Populum
Burden of proof
Anaphora
47. 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
Unequivocal
Situationally flawed
Checking for Cause argement
Testimony
48. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Sound
Analogy
Decorum
Checking for Cause argement
49. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Epistrophe
Checking for Narrative argument
Ill
Anadiplosis
50. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument of ) General probability
Good Moral Character
(Special Topoi for) Republicans