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1. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Associated Commonplaces
Division
Tools of Refutation
2. 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?
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Checking for Testimony argument
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
3. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Stasis
Structural (inherency)
Sound
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
4. An argument with true premises and valid form
Second
Checking for Cause argement
Metaphor
Sound
5. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Sophist
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Term I/Term II
Burden of proof
6. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Burden of Rejoinder
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
False Charge of Fallacy
Arguments
7. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Rhetoric
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Ad Populum
8. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Turn
False Charge of Fallacy
Anaphora
Anadiplosis
9. 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.
Refutation Strategies
Appeal to Authority
Tu Quoque
Correctio
10. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Burden of Rejoinder
Charisma
Turn
Division
11. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Parallelism
Appeal to Ignorance
Straw Person
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
12. Good Moral Character
Sophist
Refutation
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Turn
13. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Turn
Ethos
Definitional (Stasis)
Non Sequitur
14. 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'
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Sign
Correctio
(Argument from) Testimony
15. Ending repeated
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Epistrophe
Stock Issues
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
16. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Erotema
Epanalepsis
Rhetoric
(Argument from) Narrative
17. 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
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Ill
Questionable Cause
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
18. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Anaphora
(Argument from) Testimony
Unequivocal
Prolepsis
19. 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
Epistrophe
Sound
Agree on Commonality then refute
Presumption
20. 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'
False Charge of Fallacy
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Anadiplosis
Rhetoric
21. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Prolepsis
Anaphora
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
22. If A then B A Therefore B
(Fallacy of) Accident
Modus Ponens
Gorgias
Checking for Cause argement
23. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Questionable Analogy
Epanalepsis
Modus Ponens
Antithesis
24. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Litotes
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Claim
25. 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'
Analogy
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
(Argument from) Cause
Debate Resolutions
26. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Euphimism
Checking for Cause argement
Litotes
Valid
27. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Tu Quoque
Blame
Metaphor
28. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Sign
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Ill
Common Practice (Fallacy)
29. 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
Small Sample
Erotema
Non Sequitur
Erotema
30. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Refutation
Epanalepsis
Associated Commonplaces
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
31. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Toulmin Model
Enthymeme
Stock Issues
Rhetoric
32. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Disassociation of Concepts
Refutation Potential
Value-Oriented Arguments
Plato
33. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Loci of the Preferable
Protagoras
Analogy
Fallacy Fallacy
34. Ask a rhetorical question
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Erotema
Correctio
Warrant
35. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Syllogism
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Small Sample
Turn
36. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Ethos
37. 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'
Second
(Argument from) Sign
Testimony
Fallacies
38. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Ill
Personification
Correctio
Refutation Strategies
39. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Procedural (Stasis)
Sign
Litotes
Burden of Rejoinder
40. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
(Argument from) Testimony
Narrative
Ambiguity
Deductive Reasoning
41. 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.
Debate Resolutions
Straw Person
Qualitative (Stasis)
Structural (inherency)
42. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
First
Refutation
Quantitative (significance)
Loci of the Preferable
43. 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
Refutation
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Consistency
Situationally flawed
44. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.
Unrepresentative Sample
Checking for Narrative argument
False Charge of Fallacy
Cliche
45. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
(Argument by) Example
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Sound
Stasis
46. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Red Herring
Ill
Metaphor
Agree on Commonality then refute
47. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Second
Direct Refutation
Tu Quoque
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
48. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Vehicle (and) Tenor
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Popular Democracy
Corax
49. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Burden of Rejoinder
Sophist
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
(Fallacy of) Accident
50. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Conceding Arguments
Personification
Unequivocal
Locus of Quantity