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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Enthymeme
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
2. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B
Questionable Analogy
Litotes
Categorical (Syllogism)
Epanalepsis
3. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Litotes
Attitudinal (inherency)
(Argument by) Example
Protagoras
4. 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'
Associated Commonplaces
Non Sequitur
Correctio
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
5. Reasoning from case to case
Checking for Analogy argument
Non Sequitur
Analogy
Questionable Cause
6. An argument with true premises and valid form
Checking for Narrative argument
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Sound
Epanalepsis
7. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Warrant
Correctio
8. 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.
Intelligence
Begging the Question
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
9. Deliberate correction
Erotema
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Litotes
Correctio
10. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Rhetoric
Turn
Sign
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
11. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Loci of the Preferable
Argument
Hasty Generalization
Debate Resolutions
12. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
Red Herring
Qualitative (Stasis)
Protagoras
13. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Sophist
Deductive Reasoning
Epistrophe
Unsound
14. Structure repeated
Parallelism
Erotema
Division
Exergasia
15. 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
Mixed Metaphor
Situationally flawed
Anadiplosis
First
16. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
Situationally flawed
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Exergasia
17. 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'
Locus of Quantity
Simile
Ad Hominem
Burden of Rejoinder
18. beginning repeated at ending
Formal Logic
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Epanalepsis
Erotema
19. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Rhetoric
Presumption
Epanalepsis
Ill
20. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Anadiplosis
Mercenary Scientists
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Ambiguity
21. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Ill
(Fallacy of) Accident
Epistrophe
Formal Logic
22. 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
Equivocation
(Special Topoi for) Science
Stasis
23. 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'
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Metaphor
Exergasia
Tu Quoque
24. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Fallacies
Status
Testimony
Small Sample
25. Exaggeration
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Gorgias
Quantitative (significance)
Hyperbole
26. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Litotes
Example
Refutation Potential
Burden of proof
27. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Consistency
Straw Person
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Epistrophe
28. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Categorical (Syllogism)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Anaphora
Rhetoric
29. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Testimony
Unsound
Grounds (or data)
30. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Modus Ponens
Categorical (Syllogism)
Questionable Cause
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
31. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Presumption
Ambiguity
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Grounds (or data)
32. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Commonplaces
Exergasia
Gorgias
Decorum
33. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Stasis
Mercenary Scientists
Conjectural (Stasis)
Epistrophe
34. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Informal Debate
Rhetoric
Erotema
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
35. Term with higher (positive) value
Refutation
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
36. If A then B B Therefore - A
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Epanalepsis
Ill
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
37. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Burden of proof
Division
Decorum
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
38. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Agree on Commonality then refute
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Locus of Quantity
(Argument from) Narrative
39. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Gorgias
Decorum
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Checking for Narrative argument
40. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Unsound
Analogy
False Charge of Fallacy
Common Practice (Fallacy)
41. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Quantitative (significance)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Locus of Existence
Warrant
42. Opposite of anadiplosis
Decision Rules
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Parallelism
Epanalepsis
43. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Cost
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Anadiplosis
Valid
44. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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45. 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
Appeal to Authority
Definitional (Stasis)
Syllogism
Locus of Quality
46. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
False Charge of Fallacy
Isocrates
Epanalepsis
Presumption
47. Focuses on inadequacies or problems in the status quo - must be significant if a change is to be made. Must Have: 1. Quantitative significance: affects lots of people 2. Qualitative significance: is of bad quality
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Division
Ill
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
48. 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
Epistrophe
Categorical (Syllogism)
Value Hierarchies
49. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Cure
Epistrophe
Narrative
Mercenary Scientists
50. 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.
Valid
Ad Populum
Analogy
Unrepresentative Sample