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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
Hyperbole
Warrant
Antithesis
2. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Testimony
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Erotema
(Argument from) Cause
3. Set two things in opposition
Good Moral Character
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Antithesis
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
4. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Protagoras
Aristotle
Corax
5. An argument with true premises and valid form
Charisma
Sound
Checking for Sign argument
Hyperbole
6. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Epanalepsis
Value Hierarchies
Commonplaces
Vehicle (and) Tenor
7. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Anaphora
(Argument from) Sign
Sophist
Locus of Quantity
8. 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
Sophist
Unrepresentative Sample
Hasty Generalization
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
9. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Rhetoric
Manufactroversy
Euphimism
Attitudinal (inherency)
10. 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'
Second
Aristotle
Begging the Question
(Argument from) Cause
11. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Popular Democracy
Enthymeme
Equivocation
Rhetoric
12. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Second (or) Third
Refutation Potential
Protagoras
Direct Refutation
13. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Tu Quoque
(Argument from) Narrative
Decision Rules
14. Reasoning from case to case
Grounds (or data)
Good Moral Character
Analogy
Sign
15. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Aristotle
Epistrophe
Litotes
Agree on Commonality then refute
16. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Testimony
Ad Populum
Vehicle (and) Tenor
17. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Sophist
Tisias
First
Appeal to Ignorance
18. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Composition
Modus Tollens
Arguments
Deductive Reasoning
19. An argument that follows proper logical form
Tokenism
Rhetoric
Small Sample
Valid
20. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Anaphora
Good Moral Character
Locus of Existence
Locus of Essence
21. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Litotes
Consistency
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Procedural (Stasis)
22. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Unequivocal
Checking for Testimony argument
Division
Rhetoric
23. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Informal Debate
Definitional (Stasis)
Arguments
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
24. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Tokenism
Erotema
Consistency
25. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Red Herring
Ad Populum
26. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Exergasia
Testimony
Metaphor
Vehicle (and) Tenor
27. If A then B B Therefore - A
Locus of Quality
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Protagoras
Correctio
28. 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
Refutation Strategies
Categorical (Syllogism)
Charisma
Attitudinal (inherency)
29. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Begging the Question
Checking for Narrative argument
Warrant
Mixed Metaphor
30. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Composition
Epistrophe
Epistrophe
Personification
31. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Mercenary Scientists
Euphimism
Term I/Term II
Cure
32. Opposite of Epistrophe
Locus of Quality
Status
Anaphora
Decision Rules
33. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Intelligence
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Straw Person
Composition
34. Ideas repeated
Decorum
Tu Quoque
Exergasia
Incrementum
35. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Incrementum
Fallacies
36. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Tu Quoque
Testimony
Appeal to Authority
Term I/Term II
37. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Charisma
Begging the Question
Hasty Generalization
38. The list that builds
Incrementum
Straw Person
Anadiplosis
Decision Rules
39. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Attitudinal (inherency)
Hasty Generalization
Anadiplosis
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
40. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Locus of Quality
Hyperbole
Stasis
Special Topoi
41. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
(Argument from) Narrative
(Argument from) Testimony
Exergasia
42. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'
Composition
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Modus Tollens
Non Sequitur
43. Opposite of Anaphora
Quantitative (significance)
Modus Tollens
Epistrophe
(Argument from) Narrative
44. 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'
Debate Resolutions
Equivocation
(Argument from) Sign
Modus Ponens
45. Is necessary to defend the weak against the strong - Is useful and necessary to the state and the individual because you become a more thoughtful citizen and a more well-rounded person - Is useful to have the tools to recognize good arguments and def
Checking for Cause argement
Deductive Reasoning
Rhetoric
Personification
46. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Metaphor
Division
Anadiplosis
Grounds (or data)
47. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Associated Commonplaces
Plato
Composition
Parallelism
48. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Appeal to Ignorance
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Conjectural (Stasis)
49. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Epanalepsis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Erotema
50. 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
Tu Quoque
Mercenary Scientists
Locus of Quantity
Ill