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1. If A then B B Therefore - A
Ad Populum
Hyperbole
Ill
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
2. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Erotema
Informal Debate
First
3. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Popular Democracy
Procedural (Stasis)
Charisma
4. The list that builds
Personification
Modus Tollens
Categorical (Syllogism)
Incrementum
5. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Ill
Rhetoric
(Argument of ) General probability
6. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
(Fallacy of) Accident
Parallelism
Good Moral Character
7. Oppostite of Litotes
Equivocation
Hyperbole
Refutation Potential
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
8. 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.
Unrepresentative Sample
Grounds (or data)
Ill
Presumption
9. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Plato
Unequivocal
Definitional (Stasis)
Enthymeme
10. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Epistrophe
Analogy
Stasis
Qualitative (Stasis)
11. Term with higher (positive) value
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Appeal to Authority
Arguments
Toulmin Model
12. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Tu Quoque
Checking for Narrative argument
Modus Ponens
13. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Blame
Hasty Generalization
Composition
Value Hierarchies
14. An argument with true premises and valid form
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Sound
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Definitional (Stasis)
15. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Questionable Cause
Unsound
Erotema
16. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Anaphora
Arguments
Prolepsis
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
17. Structure repeated
Parallelism
False Charge of Fallacy
(Argument from) Cause
Vehicle (and) Tenor
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:
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Composition
Blame
Hyperbole
19. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
(Argument by) Example
Small Sample
(Special Topoi for) Science
20. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Cure
Categorical (Syllogism)
Formal Debate
Rhetoric
21. Ideas repeated
Ethos
Rhetoric
Exergasia
Toulmin Model
22. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Plato
Ad Populum
Informal Debate
Example
23. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Anaphora
Equivocation
Corax
Hyperbole
24. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
False Charge of Fallacy
Locus of Quantity
Ill
25. Opposite of Anaphora
Appeal to Ignorance
Accident
Epistrophe
Toulmin Model
26. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Checking for Example argument
Unsound
Sign
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
27. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Ethos
Arguments
Disassociation of Concepts
Division
28. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Syllogism
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Formal Logic
29. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Definitional (Stasis)
Hasty Generalization
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Tokenism
30. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
Blame
Tokenism
Tu Quoque
31. 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
Categorical (Syllogism)
Checking for Testimony argument
Tools of Refutation
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
32. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Parallelism
Debate Resolutions
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Cost
33. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Burden of proof
Informal Debate
Protagoras
34. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Straw Person
Attitudinal (inherency)
Sophist
Formal Logic
35. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
Epistrophe
Categorical (Syllogism)
Enthymeme
36. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Structural (inherency)
Status
Analogy
Appeal to Ignorance
37. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Fallacy of) Accident
(Argument of ) General probability
Small Sample
Arguments
38. 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
Incrementum
Epistrophe
Syllogism
Locus of Existence
39. 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
Testimony
Manufactroversy
Unrepresentative Sample
Formal Logic
40. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Cost
Attitudinal (inherency)
41. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Burden of proof
Gorgias
Stasis
42. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Erotema
Litotes
Anaphora
Hyperbole
43. Good Moral Character
Ad Populum
Refutation
Value-Oriented Arguments
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
44. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Ad Populum
(Argument by) Example
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Cure
45. 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'
Epanalepsis
Epistrophe
Debate Resolutions
(Argument from) Narrative
46. 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.
Ill
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Disassociation of Concepts
Decision Rules
47. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument from) Cause
Arguments
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
48. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Sign
Corax
Turn
Correctio
49. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Example
Sign
Ill
Rhetoric
50. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Epanalepsis
Isocrates
Ad Populum
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