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1. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
Euphimism
Hasty Generalization
Protagoras
2. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Rhetoric
Epistrophe
Parallelism
Quantitative (significance)
3. beginning repeated at ending
Rhetoric
Epanalepsis
Erotema
Cure
4. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Turn
Rhetoric
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Tu Quoque
5. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Rhetoric
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Toulmin Model
Charisma
6. 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
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Sign
Manufactroversy
7. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Epistrophe
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
False Dichotomy
(Argument from) Sign
8. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Ambiguity
Protagoras
Rhetoric
Toulmin Model
9. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Informal Debate
Associated Commonplaces
Anadiplosis
10. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Appeal to Ignorance
Tu Quoque
Corax
Emotionally Charged (Language)
11. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Litotes
Straw Person
Informal Debate
Tu Quoque
12. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Aristotle
Conceding Arguments
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Epanalepsis
13. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Epanalepsis
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Turn
Unrepresentative Sample
14. An argument with true premises and valid form
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
(Special Topoi for) Science
Sound
Valid
15. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Turn
False Charge of Fallacy
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
16. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Anadiplosis
Division
(Argument from) Narrative
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
17. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Burden of proof
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
18. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
(Argument from) Testimony
Metaphor
Modus Ponens
19. 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.
Commonplaces
Straw Person
False Charge of Fallacy
Modus Ponens
20. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Blame
Aristotle
Good Moral Character
21. 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?
Checking for Sign argument
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
22. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Sound
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Enthymeme
Common Practice (Fallacy)
23. 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'
Ad Hominem
Unequivocal
Exergasia
Agree on Commonality then refute
24. 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'
(Argument by) Example
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Status
Common Practice (Fallacy)
25. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Decorum
Appeal to Authority
Hyperbole
Tu Quoque
26. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Locus of Existence
Fallacies
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Checking for Testimony argument
27. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Prolepsis
Sign
Rhetoric
Straw Person
28. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Rhetoric
Isocrates
29. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Begging the Question
(Argument from) Cause
30. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Epistrophe
(Argument from) Cause
Ad Populum
Hyperbole
31. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Tisias
Hasty Generalization
Red Herring
32. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Burden of proof
Argument
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Epanalepsis
33. An argument that follows proper logical form
Structural (inherency)
Valid
Cost
(Fallacy of) Accident
34. 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?
Parallelism
Checking for Example argument
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Informal Debate
35. 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
Non Sequitur
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Hyperbole
Checking for Testimony argument
36. Ideas repeated
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Agree on Commonality then refute
Exergasia
Second
37. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Enthymeme
Rhetoric
Second (or) Third
Composition
38. 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
Loci of the Preferable
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Definitional (Stasis)
(Fallacy of) Accident
39. Term with lower (negative) value
Second
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Consistency
Example
40. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Debate Resolutions
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Burden of Rejoinder
41. 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.
Plato
Qualitative (Stasis)
Unrepresentative Sample
Tu Quoque
42. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Epanalepsis
Tools of Refutation
Presumption
Popular Democracy
43. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Locus of Essence
Stock Issues
Blame
Erotema
44. 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'
Anadiplosis
Burden of proof
Toulmin Model
Tu Quoque
45. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Locus of Quality
Consistency
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
46. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Value-Oriented Arguments
Isocrates
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Commonplaces
47. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Ambiguity
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Anaphora
Status
48. Circular Reasoning
Questionable Analogy
Begging the Question
Burden of proof
Refutation
49. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Sign
Burden of proof
Anadiplosis
50. After this - therefore on account of this
Associated Commonplaces
Simile
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Modus Tollens