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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost






2. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience






3. Ideas repeated






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






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






6. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done






7. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






8. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity






9. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






10. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)






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






12. 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






13. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C






14. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.






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






16. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






17. Can the sign be found without the thing for which it stands? Is an alternative explanation of the maning of the sign more credible? Are there countering signs that indicate that his one sign is false?






18. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:






19. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike






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






21. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument






22. 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






23. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






24. A or B Not A Therefore - B






25. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.






26. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning






27. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original






28. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing






29. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






30. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____






31. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal






32. 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.






33. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members






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






35. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.






36. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






37. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






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






39. Appeals from the character of the speaker






40. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






41. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






42. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)






43. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?






44. 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






45. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?






46. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares






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






48. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)






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






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