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Public Debating
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1. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Loci of the Preferable
Hyperbole
2. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Cure
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Formal Logic
3. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Associated Commonplaces
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Epanalepsis
Equivocation
4. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Agree on Commonality then refute
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Anadiplosis
Cure
5. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Presumption
Anaphora
Correctio
Intelligence
6. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Mixed Metaphor
Syllogism
Commonplaces
7. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Appeal to Authority
First
Blame
Formal Logic
8. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Parallelism
Begging the Question
9. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Debate Resolutions
Corax
Associated Commonplaces
Locus of Quality
10. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Composition
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
11. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Checking for Testimony argument
Rhetoric
Charisma
12. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Checking for Narrative argument
Incrementum
Gorgias
13. The list that builds
Appeal to Authority
Checking for Example argument
Incrementum
Ad Hominem
14. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Antithesis
Intelligence
Tu Quoque
Modus Tollens
15. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Locus of Existence
Second
First
16. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Tokenism
False Dichotomy
Narrative
Intelligence
17. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Consistency
Non Sequitur
Questionable Analogy
Unsound
18. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Emotionally Charged (Language)
False Charge of Fallacy
(Argument of ) General probability
Claim
19. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Tools of Refutation
Equivocation
Unrepresentative Sample
Testimony
20. Ideas repeated
Exergasia
Epanalepsis
Appeal to Ignorance
Debate Resolutions
21. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Epistrophe
Litotes
Erotema
Structural (inherency)
22. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Appeal to Authority
Corax
Prolepsis
(Fallacy of) Accident
23. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Antithesis
Epanalepsis
Burden of Rejoinder
24. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Sign
Status
Small Sample
Manufactroversy
25. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Epistrophe
Hasty Generalization
Tokenism
Argument
26. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Charisma
Antithesis
Anadiplosis
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
27. 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:
Blame
Litotes
Status
False Charge of Fallacy
28. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Anaphora
Exergasia
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Mercenary Scientists
29. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Tools of Refutation
Analogy
(Argument of ) General probability
30. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Correctio
Simile
Protagoras
Plato
31. Opposite of anadiplosis
Ethos
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Epanalepsis
Composition
32. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Checking for Testimony argument
Formal Debate
Questionable Cause
Rhetoric
33. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Rhetoric
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Good Will (Ethos)
Manufactroversy
34. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Deductive Reasoning
Value-Oriented Arguments
Exergasia
35. 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
Charisma
Analogy
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Intelligence
36. 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
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Tools of Refutation
Straw Person
Erotema
37. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Incrementum
Fallacy Fallacy
Decorum
Aristotle
38. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Mixed Metaphor
Metaphor
Personification
Ambiguity
39. Ask a rhetorical question
Isocrates
Sign
Equivocation
Erotema
40. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Epanalepsis
(Argument from) Narrative
Checking for Narrative argument
Debate Resolutions
41. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Epistrophe
Categorical (Syllogism)
Correctio
42. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Unsound
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
(Fallacy of) Accident
Toulmin Model
43. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Grounds (or data)
Special Topoi
Cost
Second (or) Third
44. 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
Categorical (Syllogism)
Small Sample
Erotema
Good Will (Ethos)
45. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'
Narrative
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument from) Sign
Mixed Metaphor
46. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Syllogism
Isocrates
Parallelism
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
47. 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
Incrementum
Blame
Categorical (Syllogism)
Begging the Question
48. Opposite of Epistrophe
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Anaphora
Rhetoric
49. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Locus of Quantity
Checking for Testimony argument
50. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Analogy
Attitudinal (inherency)
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