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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Rhetoric
Commonplaces
Erotema
Definitional (Stasis)
2. An argument with true premises and valid form
Value-Oriented Arguments
Hasty Generalization
Division
Sound
3. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Sign
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Presumption
Debate Resolutions
4. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
Modus Ponens
Anadiplosis
Consistency
5. Term with higher (positive) value
Composition
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Anadiplosis
First
6. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Correctio
Appeal to Ignorance
Fallacy Fallacy
Erotema
7. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Parallelism
Sophist
Sign
(Argument from) Sign
8. 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
First
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Anaphora
Shifting the Burden of Proof
9. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Toulmin Model
Anaphora
Anadiplosis
Gorgias
10. Understatement
Plato
Definitional (Stasis)
Litotes
Hasty Generalization
11. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Modus Ponens
Fallacy Fallacy
Turn
First
12. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Appeal to Authority
Tokenism
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
13. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Corax
Tisias
Anaphora
Modus Tollens
14. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Checking for Cause argement
Correctio
Sign
Appeal to Ignorance
15. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Tisias
Exergasia
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Begging the Question
16. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Ad Hominem
Intelligence
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
17. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Locus of Quality
Cost
Anaphora
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
18. 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
Exergasia
Division
Ad Populum
Agree on Commonality then refute
19. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Sign
Stasis
Unsound
Fallacy Fallacy
20. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Procedural (Stasis)
Claim
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Hasty Generalization
21. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Mercenary Scientists
Consistency
Checking for Narrative argument
Stasis
22. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Locus of Quantity
Informal Debate
(Argument by) Analogy
Parallelism
23. If A then B A Therefore B
False Dichotomy
Ill
Modus Ponens
Begging the Question
24. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'
Composition
Straw Person
Non Sequitur
Checking for Example argument
25. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
False Dichotomy
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Anadiplosis
26. 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
Situationally flawed
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Gorgias
Antithesis
27. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Composition
Stock Issues
Equivocation
Procedural (Stasis)
28. 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
Cliche
Incrementum
Decision Rules
Unequivocal
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
Parallelism
Qualitative (Stasis)
Small Sample
Procedural (Stasis)
30. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Prolepsis
Erotema
Cost
Correctio
31. Ending repeated
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Qualitative (Stasis)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
32. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Simile
Locus of Essence
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
False Charge of Fallacy
33. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Questionable Analogy
Euphimism
Red Herring
Narrative
34. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Appeal to Ignorance
Enthymeme
35. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
(Argument from) Cause
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Begging the Question
36. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Definitional (Stasis)
Stasis
Cost
Consistency
37. Opposite of anadiplosis
Anaphora
Appeal to Authority
Litotes
Epanalepsis
38. Reasoning from case to case
(Argument by) Example
Analogy
Litotes
Questionable Analogy
39. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Cliche
Term I/Term II
Decorum
40. 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
Correctio
Hasty Generalization
(Fallacy of) Accident
Stock Issues
41. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Claim
Term I/Term II
Aristotle
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
42. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Protagoras
Blame
Informal Debate
Categorical (Syllogism)
43. 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.
Ad Populum
Disassociation of Concepts
Mercenary Scientists
Unequivocal
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'
Rhetoric
Informal Debate
Appeal to Authority
(Argument from) Narrative
45. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Term I/Term II
Special Topoi
Hasty Generalization
46. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
(Fallacy of) Accident
Cliche
Euphimism
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
47. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Burden of Rejoinder
Locus of Essence
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Good Moral Character
48. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Conceding Arguments
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Term I/Term II
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
49. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Narrative
Analogy
Conjectural (Stasis)
Prolepsis
50. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Parallelism
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Analogy
Term II (Disassociation Pair)