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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)






2. 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






3. Is necessary to defend the weak against the strong - Is useful and necessary to the state and the individual because you become a more thoughtful citizen and a more well-rounded person - Is useful to have the tools to recognize good arguments and def






4. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?






5. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.






6. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing






7. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






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






9. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument






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






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






12. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry






13. 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.






14. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place






15. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.






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






17. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins






18. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives






19. '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?






20. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones






21. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






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






23. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






24. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?






25. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed






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






27. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court






28. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C






29. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?






30. beginning repeated at ending






31. 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






32. Set two things in opposition






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






34. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______






35. Understatement






36. 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






37. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost






38. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.






39. Ask a rhetorical question






40. Opposite of anadiplosis






41. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






42. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?






43. If A then B A Therefore B






44. Circular Reasoning






45. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?






46. An argument that follows proper logical form






47. 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?






48. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






49. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti






50. 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?