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1. 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
Composition
Rhetoric
Informal Debate
Checking for Example argument
2. 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.
Parallelism
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Unrepresentative Sample
Anadiplosis
3. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Charisma
Situationally flawed
Incrementum
Enthymeme
4. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
Term I/Term II
(Argument of ) General probability
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
5. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)
Fallacy Fallacy
Debate Resolutions
Analogy
Epanalepsis
6. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Consistency
Fallacies
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
7. Does one thing really cause the other - or are they merely correlated? Is there another larger cause or series of causes that better explains the effect?
Checking for Cause argement
Antithesis
Sophist
Modus Ponens
8. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Good Moral Character
Accident
Locus of Quantity
Protagoras
9. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Locus of Quantity
Categorical (Syllogism)
Good Moral Character
Questionable Analogy
10. An argument that follows proper logical form
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Valid
Anadiplosis
Testimony
11. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Tools of Refutation
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Anaphora
Prolepsis
12. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Correctio
Attitudinal (inherency)
Division
Common Practice (Fallacy)
13. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Narrative
Checking for Example argument
Epanalepsis
Loci of the Preferable
14. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
15. Beginning repeated
Anaphora
Checking for Testimony argument
Analogy
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
16. 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
Tools of Refutation
Shifting the Burden of Proof
(Argument from) Testimony
Cliche
17. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Agree on Commonality then refute
Equivocation
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
18. 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.
Isocrates
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Protagoras
Appeal to Authority
19. Reasoning from case to case
Deductive Reasoning
Categorical (Syllogism)
Cure
Analogy
20. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Gorgias
Agree on Commonality then refute
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Presumption
21. 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
Sign
Agree on Commonality then refute
Status
Burden of proof
22. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Turn
Anadiplosis
Refutation Strategies
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
23. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Epistrophe
Qualitative (Stasis)
Metaphor
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
24. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Rhetoric
Anadiplosis
Metaphor
Good Moral Character
25. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Term I/Term II
Structural (inherency)
Aristotle
Mercenary Scientists
26. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Deductive Reasoning
Unrepresentative Sample
27. 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'
Locus of Quality
Exergasia
Commonplaces
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
28. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Appeal to Authority
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Anaphora
Sign
29. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Narrative
(Fallacy of) Accident
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
30. After this - therefore on account of this
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Conceding Arguments
Qualitative (Stasis)
31. 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 -'
Consistency
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Non Sequitur
Mixed Metaphor
32. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Appeal to Ignorance
Refutation Potential
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Qualitative (Stasis)
33. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Locus of Quality
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Status
Tisias
34. Ask a rhetorical question
Checking for Example argument
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Anaphora
Erotema
35. 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'
Tu Quoque
Consistency
(Argument by) Example
Cliche
36. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Presumption
(Special Topoi for) Science
37. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Turn
Refutation
(Argument from) Testimony
Narrative
38. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Manufactroversy
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Ad Populum
Straw Person
39. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Stock Issues
Direct Refutation
Attitudinal (inherency)
(Special Topoi for) Science
40. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Litotes
Ambiguity
Intelligence
Formal Logic
41. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Ad Hominem
Value-Oriented Arguments
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Tu Quoque
42. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Appeal to Authority
Stock Issues
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Qualitative (Stasis)
43. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.
Direct Refutation
Debate Resolutions
Consistency
Euphimism
44. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Decorum
Grounds (or data)
Ad Populum
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
45. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Anaphora
Small Sample
Qualitative (Stasis)
Sign
46. Exaggeration
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Hyperbole
Definitional (Stasis)
Associated Commonplaces
47. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Refutation Potential
Composition
Warrant
Decorum
48. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Ad Hominem
Plato
Disassociation of Concepts
49. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Unequivocal
Decorum
Modus Ponens
Shifting the Burden of Proof
50. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Sign
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Mixed Metaphor
Anaphora