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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. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Rhetoric
Questionable Analogy
Appeal to Ignorance
Sign
2. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Sound
Appeal to Ignorance
Corax
Sign
3. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Burden of Rejoinder
Enthymeme
Structural (inherency)
Unsound
4. 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?
Division
Tu Quoque
Checking for Sign argument
Ambiguity
5. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Blame
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Refutation
6. After this - therefore on account of this
Ambiguity
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Personification
7. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
(Fallacy of) Accident
Anadiplosis
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Division
8. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Begging the Question
Locus of Quantity
Consistency
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
9. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Simile
Metaphor
Checking for Narrative argument
(Argument of ) General probability
10. Deliberate correction
Correctio
Parallelism
Stock Issues
Rhetoric
11. Opposite of Epistrophe
First
Anaphora
Red Herring
Testimony
12. 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
Manufactroversy
Correctio
Checking for Sign argument
(Argument of ) General probability
13. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Metaphor
Sound
Ad Hominem
Charisma
14. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Isocrates
Refutation Strategies
Questionable Analogy
15. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Checking for Example argument
Checking for Sign argument
Burden of Rejoinder
Categorical (Syllogism)
16. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Enthymeme
Formal Debate
17. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Direct Refutation
Grounds (or data)
Begging the Question
Archetypal (Metaphor)
18. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Toulmin Model
Burden of Rejoinder
Informal Debate
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
19. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Mixed Metaphor
Composition
Hasty Generalization
Categorical (Syllogism)
20. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Aristotle
Prolepsis
Erotema
Blame
21. Understatement
Litotes
Tokenism
Decorum
Epanalepsis
22. 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'
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Ad Hominem
Hyperbole
Locus of Quantity
23. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Definitional (Stasis)
Anadiplosis
Claim
Tools of Refutation
24. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Intelligence
(Special Topoi for) Science
Good Will (Ethos)
Straw Person
25. Circular Reasoning
Begging the Question
Rhetoric
Deductive Reasoning
Litotes
26. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Erotema
(Argument of ) General probability
Straw Person
False Charge of Fallacy
27. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Argument
Stasis
Analogy
Prolepsis
28. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Parallelism
Popular Democracy
Corax
Anaphora
29. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Burden of Rejoinder
Correctio
Refutation Potential
Second (or) Third
30. Term with lower (negative) value
Correctio
Metaphor
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Refutation Strategies
31. 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'
Incrementum
Tu Quoque
Structural (inherency)
Begging the Question
32. 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
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Isocrates
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Parallelism
33. 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'
(Argument from) Narrative
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
(Argument by) Example
34. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Epanalepsis
Small Sample
Accident
Antithesis
35. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Refutation Potential
Status
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
36. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
Anaphora
Stasis
Sign
37. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Epanalepsis
Deductive Reasoning
Warrant
Value Hierarchies
38. Exaggeration
Locus of Existence
Hyperbole
Accident
Toulmin Model
39. Opposite of Hyperbole
Non Sequitur
Turn
Arguments
Litotes
40. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Mercenary Scientists
Ad Populum
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
41. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Epanalepsis
Analogy
Refutation Potential
Categorical (Syllogism)
42. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Term I/Term II
Epistrophe
Direct Refutation
Sign
43. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Appeal to Authority
Debate Resolutions
Burden of Rejoinder
44. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Procedural (Stasis)
First
Mercenary Scientists
45. What vehicles and tenors share
Parallelism
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Mixed Metaphor
Associated Commonplaces
46. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
(Argument from) Cause
Isocrates
Analogy
Checking for Analogy argument
47. 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
Blame
Deductive Reasoning
Epanalepsis
Tools of Refutation
48. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Qualitative (Stasis)
Exergasia
Attitudinal (inherency)
Commonplaces
49. The list that builds
Enthymeme
Incrementum
Correctio
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
50. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Narrative
Modus Ponens
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Value Hierarchies