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1. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
False Charge of Fallacy
Gorgias
Blame
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
2. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Checking for Analogy argument
Definitional (Stasis)
Argument
False Dichotomy
3. An argument that follows proper logical form
Popular Democracy
Arguments
Non Sequitur
Valid
4. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members
Erotema
Hasty Generalization
Small Sample
Warrant
5. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Stasis
Litotes
Formal Logic
Locus of Quality
6. Ideas repeated
Exergasia
Unsound
Epanalepsis
Metaphor
7. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Direct Refutation
Accident
Procedural (Stasis)
8. Opposite of Epistrophe
Ad Populum
Appeal to Authority
Deductive Reasoning
Anaphora
9. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Epanalepsis
Direct Refutation
Conceding Arguments
Non Sequitur
10. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Corax
Personification
Hyperbole
Decorum
11. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Cliche
Locus of Quantity
Analogy
Qualitative (Stasis)
12. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Warrant
Second
Value-Oriented Arguments
13. After this - therefore on account of this
Commonplaces
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Status
14. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Exergasia
Definitional (Stasis)
Hasty Generalization
Disassociation of Concepts
15. 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'
(Argument by) Example
Appeal to Authority
Questionable Cause
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
16. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Ad Hominem
Rhetoric
Appeal to Ignorance
Stasis
17. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Second
Anadiplosis
Direct Refutation
Fallacies
18. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'
Ethos
Unequivocal
(Argument from) Narrative
Begging the Question
19. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Turn
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Second (or) Third
Toulmin Model
20. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Mixed Metaphor
Cost
Sign
Checking for Example argument
21. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Refutation Strategies
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Locus of Essence
Epanalepsis
22. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Unrepresentative Sample
Enthymeme
Sound
Rhetoric
23. 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
Situationally flawed
Unequivocal
Parallelism
24. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Cost
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Stock Issues
Sophist
25. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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26. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Erotema
Toulmin Model
Status
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
27. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Tools of Refutation
Situationally flawed
Appeal to Authority
Ad Populum
28. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Informal Debate
Popular Democracy
Metaphor
29. Reasoning from case to case
Analogy
Status
False Dichotomy
Sign
30. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Locus of Essence
Cliche
Term I/Term II
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
31. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Cure
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Ethos
Presumption
32. '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?
Example
Appeal to Authority
Tisias
Epanalepsis
33. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
Popular Democracy
(Argument from) Cause
Conceding Arguments
Isocrates
34. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Manufactroversy
Agree on Commonality then refute
Protagoras
Second (or) Third
35. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Rhetoric
Definitional (Stasis)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
36. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Anadiplosis
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Mercenary Scientists
37. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
False Charge of Fallacy
Unsound
Rhetoric
Small Sample
38. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Categorical (Syllogism)
Litotes
Hasty Generalization
Consistency
39. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Epanalepsis
Begging the Question
40. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacies
Sign
Composition
Example
41. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Tu Quoque
Epistrophe
Stasis
Good Will (Ethos)
42. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Questionable Analogy
Deductive Reasoning
Anaphora
Rhetoric
43. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Value Hierarchies
Mercenary Scientists
(Special Topoi for) Science
44. 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 Testimony argument
Checking for Cause argement
Tools of Refutation
Decision Rules
45. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
Tokenism
Small Sample
Charisma
46. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Plato
Syllogism
Rhetoric
Structural (inherency)
47. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Metaphor
Sign
Epistrophe
Blame
48. Oppostite of Litotes
Categorical (Syllogism)
Hyperbole
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Litotes
49. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
(Special Topoi for) Science
(Argument from) Testimony
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Cliche
50. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Euphimism
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Disassociation of Concepts
Locus of Quantity
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