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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
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1. If A then B B Therefore - A






2. Focuses on inadequacies or problems in the status quo - must be significant if a change is to be made. Must Have: 1. Quantitative significance: affects lots of people 2. Qualitative significance: is of bad quality






3. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'






4. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?






5. 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






6. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others






7. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






8. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument






9. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)






10. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)






11. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate






12. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)






13. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.






14. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category






15. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts






16. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth






17. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






18. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






19. The list that builds






20. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'






21. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.






22. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






23. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






24. Understatement






25. Value Hierarchy Visualization






26. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.






27. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals






28. What vehicles and tenors share






29. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.






30. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






31. 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 -'






32. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?






33. 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?






34. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)






35. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






36. A or B Not A Therefore - B






37. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)






38. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C






39. 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.






40. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)






41. beginning repeated at ending






42. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings






43. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?






44. Oral performances that have a set format in which two or more speakers take turns making arguments and counterarguments before an audience - Examples: Court room - candidate debates - academic debates






45. 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






46. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






47. Deliberate correction






48. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






49. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue






50. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.