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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?






3. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






4. 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'






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






6. Term with lower (negative) value






7. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')






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






9. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






10. Opposite of anadiplosis






11. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.






12. 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'






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






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






15. 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






16. 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'






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






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






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






20. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?






21. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity






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






23. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue






24. Term with higher (positive) value






25. 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'






26. Oppostite of Litotes






27. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec






28. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done






29. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






30. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal






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






32. Understatement






33. Opposite of Anaphora






34. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






35. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.






36. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another






37. Deliberate correction






38. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.






39. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)






40. Ending repeated






41. Structure repeated






42. Opposite of Hyperbole






43. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






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






46. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






47. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original






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






49. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)






50. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.