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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Charisma
Checking for Narrative argument
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Litotes
2. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Blame
Ambiguity
3. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Appeal to Ignorance
Checking for Testimony argument
Exergasia
Second
4. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Epistrophe
Ill
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Cost
5. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Metaphor
Term I/Term II
Intelligence
Simile
6. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Tisias
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Aristotle
7. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Fallacies
Popular Democracy
Refutation Potential
Protagoras
8. 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
Exergasia
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
(Argument by) Analogy
9. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Good Moral Character
Straw Person
Accident
10. Exaggeration
Popular Democracy
Hyperbole
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Procedural (Stasis)
11. 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
Anadiplosis
Ad Hominem
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Locus of Essence
12. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Tu Quoque
Popular Democracy
Locus of Quality
Arguments
13. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Categorical (Syllogism)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Antithesis
14. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Appeal to Ignorance
Special Topoi
Deductive Reasoning
Qualitative (Stasis)
15. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Litotes
Claim
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
16. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Anaphora
Turn
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Qualitative (Stasis)
17. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Sophist
Ethos
Epanalepsis
Sign
18. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Status
(Argument of ) General probability
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Checking for Analogy argument
19. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Status
Composition
Correctio
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
20. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
False Charge of Fallacy
Antithesis
Intelligence
21. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Isocrates
Informal Debate
22. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Associated Commonplaces
Division
Straw Person
Tu Quoque
23. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Division
Agree on Commonality then refute
Manufactroversy
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
24. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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25. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Hasty Generalization
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Incrementum
Ethos
26. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Ill
Formal Logic
Epistrophe
Tools of Refutation
27. 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?
Refutation Potential
Ad Populum
Checking for Testimony argument
Burden of Rejoinder
28. Reasoning from case to case
Corax
Analogy
Refutation Strategies
Formal Debate
29. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Sound
Fallacy Fallacy
Cost
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
30. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Anaphora
Conceding Arguments
Ethos
31. Ideas repeated
Stasis
Formal Logic
Arguments
Exergasia
32. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Second (or) Third
Agree on Commonality then refute
Arguments
33. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Rhetoric
Non Sequitur
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Burden of Rejoinder
34. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Definitional (Stasis)
Arguments
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Euphimism
35. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Correctio
First
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Locus of Quantity
36. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Epanalepsis
Cost
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Small Sample
37. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Definitional (Stasis)
Litotes
Checking for Sign argument
Sign
38. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
False Dichotomy
Unrepresentative Sample
Modus Ponens
Burden of Rejoinder
39. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Ad Populum
Appeal to Authority
(Argument from) Cause
Gorgias
40. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Refutation Strategies
Anadiplosis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
41. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Epistrophe
Anadiplosis
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Red Herring
42. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Ad Hominem
Appeal to Authority
Unsound
Begging the Question
43. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Decorum
Formal Debate
Prolepsis
44. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Deductive Reasoning
Cliche
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Corax
45. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Arguments
Conceding Arguments
Protagoras
Presumption
46. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Litotes
Cure
Analogy
Red Herring
47. Opposite of anadiplosis
Antithesis
Locus of Quantity
Epanalepsis
Second
48. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Unsound
Grounds (or data)
Checking for Analogy argument
Hyperbole
49. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Procedural (Stasis)
Litotes
Categorical (Syllogism)
Hyperbole
50. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Antithesis
Quantitative (significance)
Anadiplosis
Metaphor