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1. beginning repeated at ending
Correctio
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Epanalepsis
Decision Rules
2. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Checking for Testimony argument
Value-Oriented Arguments
Erotema
Ethos
3. Opposite of Anaphora
Consistency
False Charge of Fallacy
Epistrophe
Checking for Sign argument
4. Opposite of Epistrophe
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Anaphora
Appeal to Ignorance
Litotes
5. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Procedural (Stasis)
Appeal to Ignorance
Erotema
Anadiplosis
6. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Analogy
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Checking for Analogy argument
Appeal to Ignorance
7. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Rhetoric
Erotema
Claim
Ill
8. 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)
Turn
Fallacy Fallacy
Ad Hominem
Good Will (Ethos)
9. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Formal Logic
Ad Hominem
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Blame
10. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Anaphora
Argument
Consistency
11. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Corax
Cure
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
12. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Locus of Existence
Associated Commonplaces
Agree on Commonality then refute
13. 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?
Categorical (Syllogism)
Good Moral Character
Personification
Checking for Cause argement
14. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Commonplaces
Composition
Debate Resolutions
15. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Metaphor
Second
Refutation Strategies
16. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true
Aristotle
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Sign
Status
17. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Burden of Rejoinder
Sign
Unsound
Composition
18. An argument with true premises and valid form
Checking for Testimony argument
Equivocation
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Sound
19. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Checking for Testimony argument
Rhetoric
Tu Quoque
20. 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
Presumption
Begging the Question
Red Herring
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
21. 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
Decorum
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
False Charge of Fallacy
Parallelism
22. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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23. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Antithesis
(Argument from) Testimony
Checking for Narrative argument
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
24. If A then B A Therefore B
Erotema
Warrant
Modus Ponens
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
25. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Charisma
Hasty Generalization
Special Topoi
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
26. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Tisias
Erotema
Locus of Existence
Tu Quoque
27. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Aristotle
Isocrates
Modus Tollens
Epanalepsis
28. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Epistrophe
Structural (inherency)
29. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Composition
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
30. 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
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Refutation Potential
(Argument by) Analogy
Grounds (or data)
31. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Anaphora
Sound
Composition
Deductive Reasoning
32. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Second (or) Third
Mixed Metaphor
Definitional (Stasis)
Appeal to Ignorance
33. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Begging the Question
Hyperbole
Burden of proof
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
34. 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.
Incrementum
Unrepresentative Sample
Tools of Refutation
Second (or) Third
35. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Charisma
(Argument by) Analogy
36. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Rhetoric
Litotes
Protagoras
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
37. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Epanalepsis
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Questionable Analogy
Blame
38. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Popular Democracy
Arguments
Good Moral Character
Accident
39. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Checking for Analogy argument
Rhetoric
Charisma
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
40. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
41. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Debate Resolutions
Argument
Blame
Incrementum
42. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Antithesis
Ad Populum
Non Sequitur
Procedural (Stasis)
43. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Anaphora
Ad Hominem
Direct Refutation
Formal Debate
44. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Appeal to Ignorance
Checking for Analogy argument
Correctio
Rhetoric
45. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Rhetoric
Refutation
Attitudinal (inherency)
(Argument of ) General probability
46. After this - therefore on account of this
Plato
Burden of proof
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Euphimism
47. 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'
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Debate Resolutions
Ad Hominem
(Argument of ) General probability
48. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Formal Debate
Disassociation of Concepts
Aristotle
Epanalepsis
49. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Conceding Arguments
Cost
Anaphora
(Argument from) Testimony
50. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Sign
Tu Quoque
Checking for Sign argument