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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)






2. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope






3. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'






4. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






5. 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'






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






7. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.






8. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.






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






10. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner






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






12. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______






13. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






14. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court






15. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






16. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest






17. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas






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






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






20. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C






21. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






22. 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'






23. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.






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






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






26. A manufactured controversy that is motivated by profit or extreme ideology to intentionally create confusion in the public about an issue of scientific fact that is not in dispute by the scientific community. Used to stop debate at the conjectural le






27. Deliberate correction






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






29. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)






30. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue






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






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






33. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)






34. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.






35. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)






36. 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'






37. Oppostite of Litotes






38. 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






39. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






40. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed






41. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






42. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'






43. 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






44. Does one thing really cause the other - or are they merely correlated? Is there another larger cause or series of causes that better explains the effect?






45. After this - therefore on account of this






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






47. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






48. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






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






50. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.