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1. Opposite of anadiplosis
Tokenism
Epanalepsis
Fallacies
Argument
2. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.
Straw Person
Incrementum
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Modus Tollens
3. The list that builds
Incrementum
Status
Rhetoric
Cost
4. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Consistency
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Antithesis
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
5. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Warrant
Locus of Quantity
Definitional (Stasis)
6. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Composition
Decision Rules
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Anaphora
7. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Grounds (or data)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Anadiplosis
8. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Manufactroversy
Categorical (Syllogism)
Appeal to Authority
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
9. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Red Herring
Manufactroversy
Begging the Question
Quantitative (significance)
10. Opposite of Anaphora
Epistrophe
Cliche
Unrepresentative Sample
Accident
11. 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.
Sophist
Disassociation of Concepts
Hasty Generalization
Ambiguity
12. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Agree on Commonality then refute
Emotionally Charged (Language)
False Dichotomy
Anaphora
13. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Intelligence
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Narrative
Informal Debate
14. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Modus Tollens
Questionable Cause
Cure
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
15. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Refutation
Analogy
Non Sequitur
Tokenism
16. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Tools of Refutation
Analogy
Litotes
Division
17. 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
Sound
Decision Rules
Example
18. 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
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Tokenism
Checking for Cause argement
19. Understatement
Litotes
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Exergasia
20. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Metaphor
Testimony
Anadiplosis
Refutation Strategies
21. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Division
Quantitative (significance)
Metaphor
Appeal to Authority
22. Circular Reasoning
Begging the Question
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Anadiplosis
Litotes
23. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Erotema
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Good Will (Ethos)
Formal Debate
24. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Hyperbole
Corax
Status
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
25. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Gorgias
Categorical (Syllogism)
Anadiplosis
26. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
(Argument by) Analogy
Personification
Disassociation of Concepts
Deductive Reasoning
27. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Attitudinal (inherency)
Stock Issues
Analogy
Composition
28. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Corax
Agree on Commonality then refute
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Non Sequitur
29. 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
Anaphora
Value-Oriented Arguments
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
30. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Blame
Associated Commonplaces
Rhetoric
Enthymeme
31. 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.
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Example
Attitudinal (inherency)
Begging the Question
32. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Checking for Example argument
Epistrophe
Situationally flawed
Sound
33. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Epanalepsis
Epanalepsis
Questionable Analogy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
34. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Checking for Narrative argument
Cliche
Categorical (Syllogism)
Blame
35. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Fallacies
Sound
Value-Oriented Arguments
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
36. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
Appeal to Authority
Equivocation
Common Practice (Fallacy)
37. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Good Will (Ethos)
Euphimism
Claim
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
38. 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
Intelligence
Metaphor
Isocrates
Categorical (Syllogism)
39. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Warrant
Good Will (Ethos)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
40. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Loci of the Preferable
Decision Rules
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
41. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Deductive Reasoning
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Accident
Appeal to Authority
42. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Categorical (Syllogism)
Stock Issues
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Situationally flawed
43. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Quantitative (significance)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Gorgias
44. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Checking for Analogy argument
Turn
Intelligence
Presumption
45. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Locus of Quality
Fallacies
Epanalepsis
46. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Antithesis
Argument
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Unsound
47. Term with higher (positive) value
Disassociation of Concepts
Straw Person
Begging the Question
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
48. 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?
Anaphora
Burden of proof
Ad Hominem
Checking for Sign argument
49. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Ill
Rhetoric
Antithesis
Value Hierarchies
50. An argument with true premises and valid form
Appeal to Ignorance
Epanalepsis
Grounds (or data)
Sound