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1. 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
Argument
Situationally flawed
Turn
(Argument by) Example
2. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Ill
Division
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Situationally flawed
3. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Anaphora
Grounds (or data)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Deductive Reasoning
4. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Refutation Potential
Metaphor
Ad Populum
Tisias
5. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Good Moral Character
(Argument by) Analogy
Cost
Protagoras
6. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Fallacy Fallacy
Sophist
(Fallacy of) Accident
Unrepresentative Sample
7. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Informal Debate
Epistrophe
Cure
Hyperbole
8. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Ethos
Second
Debate Resolutions
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
9. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Value-Oriented Arguments
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Corax
Mixed Metaphor
10. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Definitional (Stasis)
Agree on Commonality then refute
Direct Refutation
Archetypal (Metaphor)
11. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.
Straw Person
Anaphora
Checking for Example argument
Ad Populum
12. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
False Charge of Fallacy
Definitional (Stasis)
Cure
Categorical (Syllogism)
13. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Hasty Generalization
Intelligence
False Dichotomy
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
14. The list that builds
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Accident
Incrementum
Status
15. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Status
False Charge of Fallacy
Direct Refutation
Simile
16. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Stock Issues
Claim
Archetypal (Metaphor)
False Charge of Fallacy
17. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Fallacy Fallacy
Checking for Testimony argument
Rhetoric
Conjectural (Stasis)
18. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacies
Small Sample
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Cliche
19. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Appeal to Ignorance
Qualitative (Stasis)
Modus Tollens
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
20. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Sign
Epistrophe
Plato
Antithesis
21. Opposite of anadiplosis
Anaphora
Epanalepsis
Ad Hominem
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
22. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Deductive Reasoning
Straw Person
Correctio
Agree on Commonality then refute
23. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Unrepresentative Sample
Checking for Narrative argument
Checking for Example argument
Corax
24. If A then B B Therefore - A
Begging the Question
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Gorgias
25. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Tisias
Anadiplosis
Epistrophe
Arguments
26. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Cost
Grounds (or data)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Begging the Question
27. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Second (or) Third
Straw Person
Special Topoi
(Argument from) Testimony
28. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Decorum
False Dichotomy
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
29. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Division
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
(Argument from) Testimony
Anadiplosis
30. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Qualitative (Stasis)
Checking for Testimony argument
Sign
Analogy
31. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Appeal to Authority
Parallelism
Small Sample
32. 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 -'
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Non Sequitur
Aristotle
Categorical (Syllogism)
33. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Equivocation
Locus of Essence
Second (or) Third
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
34. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Associated Commonplaces
Unrepresentative Sample
Checking for Analogy argument
Charisma
35. Understatement
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Cure
Litotes
36. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Procedural (Stasis)
Conceding Arguments
Emotionally Charged (Language)
37. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Erotema
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Appeal to Authority
38. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Accident
Metaphor
Stasis
Aristotle
39. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Appeal to Authority
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Analogy
Consistency
40. An argument with true premises and valid form
Toulmin Model
Litotes
Quantitative (significance)
Sound
41. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Metaphor
Good Moral Character
42. Opposite of Epistrophe
Anaphora
Mercenary Scientists
Epistrophe
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
43. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Status
Archetypal (Metaphor)
(Argument from) Sign
(Argument of ) General probability
44. Beginning repeated
Intelligence
Gorgias
Procedural (Stasis)
Anaphora
45. What vehicles and tenors share
Composition
Associated Commonplaces
Loci of the Preferable
Manufactroversy
46. Metaphors use ____ and ____
(Argument from) Testimony
Cost
Cliche
Vehicle (and) Tenor
47. 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
Isocrates
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Rhetoric
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
48. 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?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Ethos
Hyperbole
Checking for Example argument
49. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Formal Debate
Questionable Cause
Ad Populum
Refutation Potential
50. 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'
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Second (or) Third
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Rhetoric