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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Formal Logic
Protagoras
Manufactroversy
2. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Ethos
Consistency
Sign
3. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Formal Logic
Second
Unrepresentative Sample
4. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Appeal to Ignorance
Anaphora
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Erotema
5. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Isocrates
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Appeal to Authority
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
6. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Epanalepsis
Deductive Reasoning
Quantitative (significance)
Disassociation of Concepts
7. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Good Will (Ethos)
Decorum
Conjectural (Stasis)
Euphimism
8. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Ad Populum
Modus Ponens
Checking for Example argument
(Argument by) Example
9. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Grounds (or data)
Epistrophe
Qualitative (Stasis)
Questionable Analogy
10. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Ad Hominem
Appeal to Ignorance
Conjectural (Stasis)
11. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Checking for Analogy argument
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Anadiplosis
Corax
12. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
(Argument by) Analogy
Anaphora
Mercenary Scientists
Formal Debate
13. If A then B A Therefore B
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Blame
Modus Ponens
Ethos
14. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Refutation Strategies
Hasty Generalization
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Archetypal (Metaphor)
15. 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
Categorical (Syllogism)
Disassociation of Concepts
(Fallacy of) Accident
Rhetoric
16. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Formal Logic
Good Moral Character
Locus of Quality
Anadiplosis
17. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Epanalepsis
Erotema
Enthymeme
18. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Commonplaces
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
19. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Gorgias
Tisias
Commonplaces
Checking for Narrative argument
20. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Charisma
Checking for Narrative argument
Epanalepsis
21. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Manufactroversy
Composition
Non Sequitur
(Fallacy of) Accident
22. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Appeal to Ignorance
Begging the Question
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Cost
23. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Associated Commonplaces
Erotema
(Argument from) Sign
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
24. 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
Parallelism
Appeal to Ignorance
Intelligence
25. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Warrant
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Special Topoi
26. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Blame
Ethos
Formal Debate
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
27. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Rhetoric
Erotema
Stasis
Special Topoi
28. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Epanalepsis
Tu Quoque
Status
29. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
False Charge of Fallacy
Epistrophe
Conceding Arguments
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
30. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Antithesis
Exergasia
Status
Antithesis
31. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Sophist
Epanalepsis
Checking for Narrative argument
Metaphor
32. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Checking for Example argument
First
Conceding Arguments
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
33. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Corax
Valid
Exergasia
Enthymeme
34. Oral performances that have a set format in which two or more speakers take turns making arguments and counterarguments before an audience - Examples: Court room - candidate debates - academic debates
Formal Debate
Sophist
Modus Tollens
False Charge of Fallacy
35. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Status
Categorical (Syllogism)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Toulmin Model
36. 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
Associated Commonplaces
Blame
Vehicle (and) Tenor
37. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Testimony
Cost
Locus of Quality
Common Practice (Fallacy)
38. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
(Argument by) Analogy
Erotema
Valid
Categorical (Syllogism)
39. 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.
Intelligence
Definitional (Stasis)
Small Sample
Disassociation of Concepts
40. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Litotes
Anadiplosis
Example
False Charge of Fallacy
41. 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
Hasty Generalization
False Charge of Fallacy
Correctio
Begging the Question
42. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Formal Logic
Checking for Narrative argument
Composition
Refutation Potential
43. Exaggeration
Unequivocal
Hyperbole
Tu Quoque
Formal Logic
44. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Sign
Hyperbole
Value-Oriented Arguments
Correctio
45. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Locus of Quantity
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Conjectural (Stasis)
46. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Sign
Toulmin Model
Corax
Charisma
47. An argument with true premises and valid form
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Sound
Anaphora
48. Opposite of Epistrophe
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Anaphora
(Argument from) Sign
Deductive Reasoning
49. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Antithesis
Hyperbole
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
50. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Intelligence
Straw Person
Refutation Strategies
Tokenism