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1. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Categorical (Syllogism)
Informal Debate
Parallelism
Modus Tollens
2. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Composition
Fallacies
Formal Logic
3. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Epistrophe
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Ill
Mixed Metaphor
4. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Tu Quoque
Sign
Anaphora
Decision Rules
5. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?
Fallacies
Parallelism
Checking for Testimony argument
Epistrophe
6. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Argument
Toulmin Model
Tu Quoque
Accident
7. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
Unrepresentative Sample
Equivocation
Accident
8. If A then B A Therefore B
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Commonplaces
Cure
Modus Ponens
9. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Litotes
Anaphora
Begging the Question
Arguments
10. 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
Example
First
Cure
Small Sample
11. Exaggeration
Loci of the Preferable
Agree on Commonality then refute
Hyperbole
Turn
12. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
(Argument from) Narrative
Mercenary Scientists
Deductive Reasoning
Rhetoric
13. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Corax
Metaphor
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
14. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Example
Appeal to Ignorance
Mixed Metaphor
Sign
15. 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
Direct Refutation
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Debate Resolutions
Loci of the Preferable
16. 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.
Structural (inherency)
Direct Refutation
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Debate Resolutions
17. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
False Charge of Fallacy
Categorical (Syllogism)
Blame
Shifting the Burden of Proof
18. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
False Charge of Fallacy
Enthymeme
Ad Populum
19. Opposite of Anaphora
Good Will (Ethos)
Tu Quoque
Intelligence
Epistrophe
20. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Rhetoric
(Argument from) Cause
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Tu Quoque
21. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Appeal to Ignorance
Categorical (Syllogism)
Blame
22. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Conceding Arguments
Appeal to Ignorance
Anadiplosis
Second (or) Third
23. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Anaphora
Value Hierarchies
Arguments
Commonplaces
24. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Begging the Question
Rhetoric
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Prolepsis
25. The inference moves from specific to general or from general to specific. The warrant to this argument usually reads 'what is true in this case is true in general' or 'what is true in general is true in this case'
Loci of the Preferable
Anadiplosis
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
(Argument by) Example
26. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Prolepsis
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Hyperbole
Cliche
27. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Anadiplosis
Epanalepsis
Tu Quoque
28. 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'
Ethos
Analogy
Epistrophe
Tu Quoque
29. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Locus of Essence
Disassociation of Concepts
Refutation Strategies
Deductive Reasoning
30. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Tu Quoque
Composition
Unequivocal
31. 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
Checking for Analogy argument
Blame
Narrative
Shifting the Burden of Proof
32. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Checking for Analogy argument
Burden of proof
Euphimism
Arguments
33. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B
Claim
Categorical (Syllogism)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Checking for Cause argement
34. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Erotema
Mixed Metaphor
Plato
35. Opposite of Epanalepsis
(Argument by) Example
Arguments
Anadiplosis
Burden of Rejoinder
36. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Correctio
Equivocation
Shifting the Burden of Proof
37. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Epanalepsis
Claim
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Sound
38. 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.
Straw Person
Unsound
Presumption
Metaphor
39. An argument that follows proper logical form
Blame
Valid
Tokenism
Anadiplosis
40. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Epistrophe
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Tools of Refutation
Debate Resolutions
41. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Appeal to Ignorance
Ad Hominem
Formal Logic
42. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
Protagoras
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Simile
43. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Unequivocal
Decorum
44. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Formal Debate
Hasty Generalization
45. Ideas repeated
Consistency
Exergasia
Hyperbole
Testimony
46. 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
Non Sequitur
Composition
(Argument by) Analogy
Sophist
47. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Conjectural (Stasis)
Antithesis
Isocrates
48. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Ethos
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
(Fallacy of) Accident
Value Hierarchies
49. Term with higher (positive) value
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Checking for Analogy argument
Turn
50. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Good Moral Character
Gorgias
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
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