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Subject : soft-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






2. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?






3. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'






4. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






5. A or B Not A Therefore - B






6. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.






7. 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






8. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






9. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C






10. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')






11. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?






12. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives






13. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)






14. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.






15. 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






16. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place






17. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?






18. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'






19. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?






20. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?






21. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






22. 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






23. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument






24. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)






25. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






26. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'






27. Metaphors use ____ and ____






28. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts






29. Circular Reasoning






30. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument






31. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones






32. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth






33. 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.






34. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






35. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






36. 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'






37. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue






38. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.






39. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.






40. 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






41. Oppostite of Litotes






42. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses






43. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






44. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'






45. 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






46. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






47. 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'






48. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue






49. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






50. 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?







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