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1. 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?
Special Topoi
Rhetoric
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Checking for Testimony argument
2. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Deductive Reasoning
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Rhetoric
Appeal to Ignorance
3. 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?
Correctio
Unrepresentative Sample
Checking for Example argument
Value Hierarchies
4. 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
Tools of Refutation
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument from) Narrative
5. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Metaphor
Ad Populum
Sophist
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
6. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Good Will (Ethos)
Refutation Potential
Warrant
Anadiplosis
7. An argument that follows proper logical form
Straw Person
Valid
Modus Tollens
Hasty Generalization
8. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Composition
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Locus of Existence
Appeal to Authority
9. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Narrative
Presumption
Antithesis
Plato
10. 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
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
(Argument by) Analogy
Erotema
False Charge of Fallacy
11. Opposite of Anaphora
Epistrophe
Warrant
Tisias
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
12. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Checking for Narrative argument
False Charge of Fallacy
Checking for Cause argement
13. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Composition
Ethos
14. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Argument
Erotema
Intelligence
15. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Categorical (Syllogism)
Decorum
Blame
Refutation Strategies
16. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Ad Populum
Division
Arguments
Consistency
17. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Locus of Essence
Small Sample
Syllogism
Erotema
18. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Refutation
Questionable Analogy
Commonplaces
Appeal to Authority
19. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Anadiplosis
Epistrophe
Tisias
20. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population
Small Sample
Sign
Composition
Burden of Rejoinder
21. 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
Red Herring
Plato
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Tools of Refutation
22. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members
Direct Refutation
Mixed Metaphor
Hasty Generalization
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
23. 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
Checking for Example argument
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Loci of the Preferable
Claim
24. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Epistrophe
Prolepsis
Begging the Question
25. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Antithesis
Appeal to Ignorance
Checking for Example argument
Anadiplosis
26. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Rhetoric
Locus of Essence
Ill
Informal Debate
27. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Arguments
Erotema
Litotes
Cure
28. What vehicles and tenors share
Straw Person
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Aristotle
Associated Commonplaces
29. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Qualitative (Stasis)
False Charge of Fallacy
Cliche
30. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Appeal to Ignorance
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Turn
(Argument by) Example
31. Is necessary to defend the weak against the strong - Is useful and necessary to the state and the individual because you become a more thoughtful citizen and a more well-rounded person - Is useful to have the tools to recognize good arguments and def
Popular Democracy
Deductive Reasoning
Rhetoric
Refutation Strategies
32. Beginning repeated
Unsound
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Litotes
Anaphora
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
Checking for Narrative argument
Intelligence
(Argument from) Testimony
34. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Warrant
Ambiguity
Epistrophe
Stock Issues
35. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Popular Democracy
Modus Tollens
Commonplaces
Metaphor
36. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Rhetoric
Sophist
Cost
Syllogism
37. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Tokenism
Questionable Cause
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Anaphora
38. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Grounds (or data)
Sophist
Checking for Analogy argument
Rhetoric
39. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Formal Logic
Anaphora
Loci of the Preferable
Emotionally Charged (Language)
40. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Narrative
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
False Charge of Fallacy
41. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
(Argument by) Example
Consistency
42. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Analogy
False Charge of Fallacy
Warrant
Erotema
43. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
(Argument by) Example
Locus of Existence
Categorical (Syllogism)
Tisias
44. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals
Agree on Commonality then refute
Protagoras
Antithesis
Good Moral Character
45. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Appeal to Ignorance
Small Sample
Refutation Strategies
Euphimism
46. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Syllogism
Litotes
Good Moral Character
47. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Modus Tollens
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Questionable Cause
48. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Warrant
Agree on Commonality then refute
Epistrophe
49. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Division
Personification
Corax
Ad Hominem
50. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Anadiplosis
Metaphor
Enthymeme