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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Sophist
Enthymeme
Metaphor
Sign
2. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Refutation Potential
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Argument
Mixed Metaphor
3. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Testimony
(Argument from) Testimony
Consistency
Enthymeme
4. If A then B B Therefore - A
Ad Populum
Burden of Rejoinder
Unrepresentative Sample
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
5. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Mercenary Scientists
Unequivocal
Commonplaces
Checking for Example argument
6. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Value-Oriented Arguments
Fallacies
Ambiguity
Litotes
7. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
False Dichotomy
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Refutation Strategies
Appeal to Authority
8. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Epistrophe
Unsound
Parallelism
Formal Debate
9. Is necessary to defend the weak against the strong - Is useful and necessary to the state and the individual because you become a more thoughtful citizen and a more well-rounded person - Is useful to have the tools to recognize good arguments and def
Appeal to Ignorance
Plato
Manufactroversy
Rhetoric
10. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Prolepsis
Refutation Potential
Composition
11. Opposite of anadiplosis
Categorical (Syllogism)
Epanalepsis
Hyperbole
(Argument from) Cause
12. 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
Tools of Refutation
Categorical (Syllogism)
Locus of Quality
Litotes
13. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Arguments
Sign
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Litotes
14. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
(Fallacy of) Accident
Metaphor
Structural (inherency)
Debate Resolutions
15. 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.
Cost
Disassociation of Concepts
Procedural (Stasis)
Agree on Commonality then refute
16. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Metaphor
Locus of Essence
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Second
17. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Ambiguity
Litotes
Small Sample
Prolepsis
18. Oppostite of Litotes
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Hyperbole
Tu Quoque
Aristotle
19. 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
Arguments
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Refutation Potential
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
20. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Rhetoric
Questionable Analogy
Tu Quoque
21. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Erotema
False Charge of Fallacy
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
22. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Appeal to Ignorance
Turn
(Argument from) Sign
Anaphora
23. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Checking for Cause argement
Blame
Quantitative (significance)
Grounds (or data)
24. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Rhetoric
Disassociation of Concepts
(Argument from) Sign
Burden of proof
25. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
(Special Topoi for) Science
Qualitative (Stasis)
Second
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
26. After this - therefore on account of this
Erotema
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Gorgias
(Special Topoi for) Science
27. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Epanalepsis
(Fallacy of) Accident
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Emotionally Charged (Language)
28. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Epistrophe
(Argument of ) General probability
Second (or) Third
Value Hierarchies
29. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Hyperbole
Intelligence
Composition
Enthymeme
30. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Sound
Ethos
Gorgias
False Dichotomy
31. 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?
Syllogism
Checking for Analogy argument
Special Topoi
Charisma
32. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Questionable Analogy
Rhetoric
Mercenary Scientists
Hasty Generalization
33. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Narrative
Associated Commonplaces
Anadiplosis
Antithesis
34. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Enthymeme
Good Moral Character
Narrative
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
35. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Narrative
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Unrepresentative Sample
(Special Topoi for) Science
36. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Appeal to Ignorance
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Checking for Cause argement
Deductive Reasoning
37. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Quantitative (significance)
Tu Quoque
(Special Topoi for) Science
38. Beginning repeated
Litotes
Anaphora
Tools of Refutation
(Argument from) Cause
39. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Second
Blame
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Ad Populum
40. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Tools of Refutation
Epanalepsis
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Accident
41. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Special Topoi
Stasis
Appeal to Authority
Enthymeme
42. 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
Manufactroversy
Sign
Unrepresentative Sample
Value Hierarchies
43. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Anadiplosis
Accident
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
44. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Division
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Charisma
(Argument from) Narrative
45. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Exergasia
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
46. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Epanalepsis
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Hasty Generalization
Warrant
47. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
Quantitative (significance)
Syllogism
Direct Refutation
48. 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.
Begging the Question
Fallacies
Equivocation
Archetypal (Metaphor)
49. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Ill
Locus of Existence
(Special Topoi for) Science
Unequivocal
50. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Value-Oriented Arguments
Ill
Exergasia
Epistrophe