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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
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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?






2. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope






3. 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






4. 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?






5. Ideas repeated






6. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts






7. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides






8. 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'






9. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.






10. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.






11. 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'






12. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?






13. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument






14. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____

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15. Exaggeration






16. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






17. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members






18. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others






19. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties






20. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?






21. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity






22. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






23. 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






24. 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






25. After this - therefore on account of this






26. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






27. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.






28. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)






29. 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'






30. Oppostite of Litotes






31. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.






32. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






33. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)






34. Opposite of Hyperbole






35. Reasoning from case to case






36. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C






37. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)






38. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?






39. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'






40. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.






41. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument






42. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry






43. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






44. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






45. Who developed the argument from general probability?






46. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)






47. 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.






48. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.






49. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'






50. 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