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1. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Fallacies
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Incrementum
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
2. Reasoning from case to case
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Valid
Analogy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
3. Term with lower (negative) value
Rhetoric
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Argument
4. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Straw Person
Appeal to Ignorance
Intelligence
Emotionally Charged (Language)
5. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Prolepsis
Second
Modus Tollens
6. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
False Charge of Fallacy
Gorgias
Categorical (Syllogism)
Definitional (Stasis)
7. 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'
Anaphora
Prolepsis
(Argument by) Example
Good Will (Ethos)
8. Ask a rhetorical question
Erotema
Categorical (Syllogism)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Manufactroversy
9. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Metaphor
Locus of Essence
Checking for Example argument
Non Sequitur
10. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'
Non Sequitur
(Argument from) Testimony
Checking for Cause argement
Blame
11. 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)
(Argument by) Analogy
Attitudinal (inherency)
Fallacy Fallacy
Manufactroversy
12. The list that builds
Checking for Testimony argument
Fallacies
Locus of Existence
Incrementum
13. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Euphimism
Blame
Categorical (Syllogism)
Arguments
14. Beginning repeated
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Corax
Anaphora
Sign
15. An argument with true premises and valid form
Decision Rules
Sign
Attitudinal (inherency)
Sound
16. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Presumption
Questionable Analogy
Exergasia
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
17. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Grounds (or data)
Begging the Question
Anadiplosis
Blame
18. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:
Parallelism
Formal Debate
Blame
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
19. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Questionable Cause
Argument
20. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Correctio
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Consistency
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
21. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Appeal to Authority
(Argument from) Testimony
Attitudinal (inherency)
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
22. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Euphimism
Mixed Metaphor
Metaphor
Blame
23. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?
Checking for Testimony argument
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Blame
24. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Cost
Quantitative (significance)
Non Sequitur
Qualitative (Stasis)
25. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Hyperbole
Modus Tollens
Blame
Epistrophe
26. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Corax
Grounds (or data)
Blame
27. Ending repeated
Non Sequitur
Epistrophe
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Correctio
28. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
Refutation Strategies
Warrant
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
29. 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
Disassociation of Concepts
Conjectural (Stasis)
Loci of the Preferable
Intelligence
30. 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.
Unsound
Unrepresentative Sample
Attitudinal (inherency)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
31. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Equivocation
Conceding Arguments
Mercenary Scientists
Exergasia
32. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
(Argument from) Sign
Refutation Strategies
33. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Presumption
Parallelism
False Dichotomy
Checking for Testimony argument
34. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Epistrophe
Analogy
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Exergasia
35. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Testimony
Ill
Claim
Rhetoric
36. Understatement
(Argument by) Analogy
Epistrophe
Litotes
Mercenary Scientists
37. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Epistrophe
Checking for Narrative argument
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
First
38. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Cure
Checking for Cause argement
Ill
Categorical (Syllogism)
39. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Unequivocal
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Hyperbole
40. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Correctio
Burden of proof
41. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Small Sample
Begging the Question
Valid
42. Deliberate correction
Checking for Sign argument
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Correctio
Procedural (Stasis)
43. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Hyperbole
Loci of the Preferable
Accident
44. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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45. 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.
Tisias
False Dichotomy
Equivocation
Debate Resolutions
46. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Narrative
Composition
Hyperbole
47. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Ethos
Checking for Example argument
Definitional (Stasis)
Claim
48. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Refutation Strategies
Grounds (or data)
(Argument by) Analogy
49. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Begging the Question
Corax
Term I/Term II
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
50. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Non Sequitur
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Tools of Refutation
Decorum