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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. If A then B B Therefore - A
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Example
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Rhetoric
2. 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
(Argument by) Analogy
Ill
Sign
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
3. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Hyperbole
Arguments
Informal Debate
4. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Rhetoric
Non Sequitur
First
Incrementum
5. 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
Cure
Antithesis
Small Sample
Correctio
6. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Aristotle
False Dichotomy
(Special Topoi for) Science
Conceding Arguments
7. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Claim
Begging the Question
Intelligence
Litotes
8. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
False Dichotomy
Anadiplosis
9. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Argument
Hasty Generalization
Valid
Sign
10. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
False Dichotomy
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Claim
Toulmin Model
11. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Euphimism
Unequivocal
Narrative
Commonplaces
12. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Metaphor
Ambiguity
Narrative
Warrant
13. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Anaphora
Questionable Cause
Refutation Strategies
14. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Metaphor
Refutation
Non Sequitur
15. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Second
Division
Syllogism
Testimony
16. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument of ) General probability
Plato
Hyperbole
Blame
17. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Composition
Sign
Decorum
Burden of Rejoinder
18. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Anaphora
False Dichotomy
Example
Tools of Refutation
19. The list that builds
(Argument by) Example
Incrementum
(Argument by) Analogy
Tokenism
20. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Rhetoric
Anaphora
Cure
Ambiguity
21. 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.
Rhetoric
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Debate Resolutions
Correctio
22. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
(Argument from) Testimony
Blame
Direct Refutation
Aristotle
23. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Value-Oriented Arguments
Epanalepsis
Litotes
Gorgias
24. Understatement
Litotes
First
Ambiguity
Metaphor
25. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Hasty Generalization
Hasty Generalization
Term I/Term II
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
26. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Prolepsis
False Dichotomy
Cost
Decorum
27. 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
Prolepsis
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Litotes
Agree on Commonality then refute
28. What vehicles and tenors share
Begging the Question
Charisma
Accident
Associated Commonplaces
29. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Informal Debate
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Hyperbole
Quantitative (significance)
30. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Anadiplosis
Anaphora
Decision Rules
Attitudinal (inherency)
31. 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 -'
Division
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Personification
Non Sequitur
32. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Equivocation
Tools of Refutation
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Anadiplosis
33. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
Refutation
Checking for Cause argement
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Checking for Analogy argument
34. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Litotes
Division
Good Moral Character
Plato
35. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Second (or) Third
Categorical (Syllogism)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Epistrophe
36. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Definitional (Stasis)
Informal Debate
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
37. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Epanalepsis
Epistrophe
Consistency
Conjectural (Stasis)
38. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Epanalepsis
Hyperbole
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Deductive Reasoning
39. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Commonplaces
Begging the Question
Claim
Litotes
40. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Intelligence
Checking for Cause argement
Hasty Generalization
41. beginning repeated at ending
Qualitative (Stasis)
Epanalepsis
Conjectural (Stasis)
Tu Quoque
42. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Sign
Testimony
False Dichotomy
Ambiguity
43. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Anaphora
Value-Oriented Arguments
Refutation Potential
Hyperbole
44. 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
Appeal to Ignorance
Blame
Formal Debate
Ill
45. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Syllogism
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
46. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Sign
Agree on Commonality then refute
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
47. Deliberate correction
Questionable Analogy
Popular Democracy
Refutation Potential
Correctio
48. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Unequivocal
First
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
49. 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
Claim
Red Herring
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Value Hierarchies
50. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Stock Issues
Unsound
Small Sample
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc