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1. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares
Questionable Cause
Metaphor
Loci of the Preferable
Mercenary Scientists
2. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Rhetoric
Sophist
Warrant
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
3. 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
Anadiplosis
Anadiplosis
Manufactroversy
Epanalepsis
4. Ending repeated
Formal Debate
Good Will (Ethos)
Warrant
Epistrophe
5. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Narrative
Cliche
Sound
6. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'
Antithesis
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Formal Logic
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
7. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Narrative
Small Sample
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Gorgias
8. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Composition
Sign
False Dichotomy
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
9. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Tokenism
Modus Ponens
Red Herring
Composition
10. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Checking for Narrative argument
(Argument by) Analogy
Euphimism
Epistrophe
11. The inference reasons that what a trustworthy source says is true. The warrant to this argument usually says - 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true'
(Argument from) Testimony
Corax
(Argument by) Analogy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
12. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Locus of Essence
Second (or) Third
Cost
Anadiplosis
13. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Definitional (Stasis)
Second (or) Third
Epanalepsis
Turn
14. 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?
Procedural (Stasis)
Composition
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Checking for Testimony argument
15. Opposite of anadiplosis
Conceding Arguments
First
Epanalepsis
Metaphor
16. 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 -'
Prolepsis
Epanalepsis
Fallacy Fallacy
Non Sequitur
17. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Formal Logic
Second
Tokenism
Stock Issues
18. After this - therefore on account of this
Unsound
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Anaphora
19. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Aristotle
Warrant
Unsound
Conceding Arguments
20. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Testimony
Syllogism
Exergasia
Ad Populum
21. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Anaphora
22. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'
Categorical (Syllogism)
(Argument by) Analogy
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Ad Hominem
23. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Fallacies
Hyperbole
Epistrophe
24. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Accident
Fallacies
Checking for Narrative argument
First
25. Circular Reasoning
Anadiplosis
Syllogism
Locus of Quantity
Begging the Question
26. '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?
Qualitative (Stasis)
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Example
Value Hierarchies
27. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Anaphora
Hasty Generalization
Argument
Tu Quoque
28. 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.
False Dichotomy
Straw Person
Questionable Cause
Antithesis
29. Deliberate correction
Disassociation of Concepts
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Correctio
False Dichotomy
30. Opposite of Anaphora
Blame
Checking for Narrative argument
Epistrophe
Small Sample
31. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Sign
Anaphora
Aristotle
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
32. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Testimony
Questionable Analogy
Anadiplosis
(Argument from) Testimony
33. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Consistency
Arguments
Checking for Testimony argument
Non Sequitur
34. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Questionable Analogy
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Argument
Isocrates
35. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Composition
Hyperbole
36. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Cost
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Quantitative (significance)
Erotema
37. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Good Moral Character
Decision Rules
38. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
Categorical (Syllogism)
(Argument from) Narrative
Aristotle
39. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
False Dichotomy
Appeal to Authority
Loci of the Preferable
Commonplaces
40. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Tokenism
Syllogism
Exergasia
Epanalepsis
41. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Agree on Commonality then refute
Sophist
42. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Charisma
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Commonplaces
Equivocation
43. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Checking for Testimony argument
Erotema
Red Herring
44. beginning repeated at ending
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument by) Example
Epanalepsis
Rhetoric
45. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Direct Refutation
Situationally flawed
Sign
Anadiplosis
46. 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.
(Argument by) Example
Personification
Debate Resolutions
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
47. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Ambiguity
Simile
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Status
48. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Conceding Arguments
Refutation Potential
Tu Quoque
Decorum
49. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Accident
Good Will (Ethos)
Sign
Checking for Sign argument
50. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Begging the Question
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Analogy
Corax