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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






2. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






3. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






4. 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






5. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____






6. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.






7. 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






8. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original






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






10. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____


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






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






13. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.






14. 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.






15. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?






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






17. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.






18. Understatement






19. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties






20. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






21. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope






22. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)






23. If A then B Not A Therefore not B






24. 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.






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






26. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?






27. What vehicles and tenors share






28. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'






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






30. An argument that follows proper logical form






31. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






32. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






33. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






34. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'






35. Beginning repeated






36. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






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






38. Exaggeration






39. 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.






40. 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'






41. 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'






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






43. Appeals from the character of the speaker






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






45. Opposite of Epistrophe






46. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'






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






48. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas






49. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






50. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts