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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Definitional (Stasis)
Sophist
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Decision Rules
2. Opposite of anadiplosis
Epistrophe
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Example
Epanalepsis
3. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Correctio
Anaphora
Composition
Checking for Sign argument
4. An argument that follows proper logical form
Accident
Modus Ponens
Checking for Testimony argument
Valid
5. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Good Will (Ethos)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Ad Hominem
Questionable Analogy
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'
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Toulmin Model
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Agree on Commonality then refute
7. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Correctio
Unsound
Burden of proof
Valid
8. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Unsound
Analogy
Gorgias
Anadiplosis
9. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Ponens
Tu Quoque
Anaphora
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
10. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Good Moral Character
Quantitative (significance)
Hyperbole
Shifting the Burden of Proof
11. 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
Epanalepsis
Syllogism
Tu Quoque
Cliche
12. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
(Special Topoi for) Science
Testimony
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Warrant
13. 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.
Appeal to Ignorance
Modus Tollens
Non Sequitur
Begging the Question
14. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Associated Commonplaces
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Sign
Personification
15. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Epanalepsis
Analogy
Commonplaces
Charisma
16. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Associated Commonplaces
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Burden of proof
Cost
17. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Unsound
Modus Tollens
Personification
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
18. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
Refutation Strategies
Intelligence
Appeal to Authority
19. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Antithesis
Narrative
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Good Moral Character
20. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Stasis
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Ill
Fallacies
21. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Analogy
Value-Oriented Arguments
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Term I/Term II
22. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Checking for Narrative argument
Procedural (Stasis)
Mixed Metaphor
Small Sample
23. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Second (or) Third
Associated Commonplaces
Term I/Term II
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
24. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Isocrates
Division
25. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Quantitative (significance)
Appeal to Authority
Conjectural (Stasis)
26. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Warrant
Appeal to Ignorance
Stasis
Presumption
27. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Deductive Reasoning
Structural (inherency)
Charisma
28. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Mercenary Scientists
Decorum
Sophist
Antithesis
29. The inference moves from specific to general or from general to specific. The warrant to this argument usually reads 'what is true in this case is true in general' or 'what is true in general is true in this case'
Epanalepsis
Non Sequitur
Epanalepsis
(Argument by) Example
30. 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 -'
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Metaphor
Non Sequitur
Second
31. Circular Reasoning
Incrementum
Commonplaces
Begging the Question
(Argument of ) General probability
32. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Turn
Cure
Narrative
Anaphora
33. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Value-Oriented Arguments
Grounds (or data)
Metaphor
34. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Stock Issues
Second (or) Third
Analogy
Unrepresentative Sample
35. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Rhetoric
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Non Sequitur
36. Beginning repeated
Appeal to Ignorance
Plato
Hasty Generalization
Anaphora
37. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Loci of the Preferable
Rhetoric
Exergasia
38. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Term I/Term II
Equivocation
Antithesis
Debate Resolutions
39. 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
Unrepresentative Sample
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Loci of the Preferable
Burden of proof
40. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Anadiplosis
Appeal to Authority
(Argument of ) General probability
41. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Intelligence
First
(Argument by) Example
Procedural (Stasis)
42. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Ad Hominem
Claim
Burden of proof
Value Hierarchies
43. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Mercenary Scientists
Anadiplosis
Non Sequitur
Ethos
44. 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
Structural (inherency)
Quantitative (significance)
Sign
Situationally flawed
45. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Locus of Quality
Ambiguity
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
46. 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
Ill
Isocrates
Tu Quoque
Tokenism
47. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Stasis
Checking for Example argument
Hasty Generalization
Epistrophe
48. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Begging the Question
Presumption
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Second
49. Exaggeration
Metaphor
Personification
Quantitative (significance)
Hyperbole
50. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Stock Issues
Loci of the Preferable
Refutation Potential
Quantity Quality Essence Existent