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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. '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?
Analogy
Example
Aristotle
Metaphor
2. 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?
Definitional (Stasis)
Isocrates
Checking for Testimony argument
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
3. Does one thing really cause the other - or are they merely correlated? Is there another larger cause or series of causes that better explains the effect?
Checking for Cause argement
Unrepresentative Sample
Decorum
Small Sample
4. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Charisma
Unsound
Locus of Essence
5. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Arguments
Procedural (Stasis)
Anaphora
First
6. If A then B A Therefore B
Sign
Appeal to Ignorance
Composition
Modus Ponens
7. 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.
Claim
Metaphor
Unrepresentative Sample
Argument
8. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Valid
Rhetoric
Locus of Quality
Good Will (Ethos)
9. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Epanalepsis
Fallacy Fallacy
Sound
Locus of Quality
10. Deliberate correction
Correctio
Ambiguity
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Enthymeme
11. An argument with true premises and valid form
Sound
(Argument from) Narrative
Vehicle (and) Tenor
False Charge of Fallacy
12. 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?
False Charge of Fallacy
Checking for Sign argument
Good Moral Character
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
13. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Charisma
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument by) Analogy
Refutation Potential
14. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Cure
Tokenism
Composition
15. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Tools of Refutation
Second
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Ill
16. Beginning repeated
Rhetoric
Attitudinal (inherency)
Anaphora
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
17. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
Burden of proof
False Dichotomy
Toulmin Model
18. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Situationally flawed
Ad Populum
Burden of proof
Antithesis
19. 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
Composition
Anadiplosis
Syllogism
Decorum
20. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Rhetoric
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Epanalepsis
21. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Rhetoric
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Erotema
Quantitative (significance)
22. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Hyperbole
Analogy
Status
Value Hierarchies
23. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Anaphora
Anadiplosis
Warrant
Accident
24. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Aristotle
Composition
Turn
False Dichotomy
25. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Analogy
Epanalepsis
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Term I/Term II
26. Ask a rhetorical question
Epistrophe
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Division
Erotema
27. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Sound
Parallelism
Metaphor
Equivocation
28. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Checking for Cause argement
Unrepresentative Sample
29. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Exergasia
Isocrates
Toulmin Model
30. 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
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Unequivocal
Epistrophe
Narrative
31. 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'
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Commonplaces
Decision Rules
(Argument from) Narrative
32. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Informal Debate
Deductive Reasoning
Debate Resolutions
First
33. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Grounds (or data)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Hyperbole
Associated Commonplaces
34. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Epistrophe
False Charge of Fallacy
Anaphora
Argument
35. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Procedural (Stasis)
Division
Tools of Refutation
36. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Mixed Metaphor
Decision Rules
Parallelism
Ill
37. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
Associated Commonplaces
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Prolepsis
38. 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?
Locus of Existence
Checking for Analogy argument
Aristotle
Agree on Commonality then refute
39. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Mercenary Scientists
Deductive Reasoning
Epistrophe
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
40. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Locus of Quality
Ad Populum
Unsound
Epanalepsis
41. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Hasty Generalization
Metaphor
Litotes
Mercenary Scientists
42. 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:
Refutation Strategies
Blame
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Special Topoi
43. 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 -'
Appeal to Authority
Non Sequitur
Protagoras
Mercenary Scientists
44. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Blame
Syllogism
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Appeal to Ignorance
45. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Burden of Rejoinder
Sign
Small Sample
Locus of Quantity
46. 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
Rhetoric
Cliche
Ad Populum
Ambiguity
47. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Fallacy Fallacy
Simile
(Argument from) Sign
First
48. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Blame
Checking for Example argument
Presumption
Enthymeme
49. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Straw Person
Ethos
Modus Ponens
Formal Logic
50. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Checking for Analogy argument
Hyperbole
Testimony
Rhetoric