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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Equivocation
Ethos
Conceding Arguments
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
2. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Sign
Personification
Plato
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
3. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Special Topoi
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Locus of Existence
Formal Debate
4. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:
Argument
Good Moral Character
Blame
Ambiguity
5. 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
Mercenary Scientists
Locus of Quantity
Hasty Generalization
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
6. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Burden of Rejoinder
Decision Rules
Burden of proof
Isocrates
7. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Blame
Narrative
Gorgias
Disassociation of Concepts
8. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Second
Warrant
(Special Topoi for) Science
9. 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.
Unsound
Begging the Question
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Stock Issues
10. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Argument
Turn
Decorum
Testimony
11. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Begging the Question
Presumption
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Good Will (Ethos)
12. Term with higher (positive) value
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Tu Quoque
Epanalepsis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
13. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Good Moral Character
Checking for Sign argument
Anaphora
Second
14. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Popular Democracy
Litotes
Epanalepsis
Equivocation
15. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Metaphor
Informal Debate
Anaphora
Hasty Generalization
16. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Sound
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Anadiplosis
17. 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.
Incrementum
Straw Person
Qualitative (Stasis)
Direct Refutation
18. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Loci of the Preferable
Checking for Narrative argument
Erotema
Charisma
19. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Unequivocal
Testimony
(Argument from) Narrative
Hyperbole
20. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Manufactroversy
Checking for Narrative argument
Aristotle
Tisias
21. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'
(Argument from) Sign
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Questionable Cause
Rhetoric
22. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Commonplaces
Plato
Cost
Prolepsis
23. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Formal Logic
(Argument by) Analogy
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Appeal to Authority
24. Beginning repeated
Cure
Anaphora
Argument
Locus of Existence
25. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Checking for Cause argement
Cost
Hyperbole
26. An argument with true premises and valid form
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Modus Tollens
Sound
27. 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
Second
(Special Topoi for) Science
False Dichotomy
28. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Locus of Quality
Erotema
Debate Resolutions
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
29. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
First
Hyperbole
Locus of Essence
Tokenism
30. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Refutation Strategies
Checking for Narrative argument
Simile
Arguments
31. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Turn
Value Hierarchies
Begging the Question
32. 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
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Syllogism
Personification
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
33. 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
Anaphora
Rhetoric
Value-Oriented Arguments
Parallelism
34. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Metaphor
Simile
Ad Populum
35. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Charisma
(Argument by) Analogy
Tokenism
36. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Structural (inherency)
Checking for Cause argement
Commonplaces
37. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Commonplaces
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Manufactroversy
Exergasia
38. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Loci of the Preferable
Second (or) Third
Epistrophe
Good Will (Ethos)
39. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
(Fallacy of) Accident
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Ad Populum
Conjectural (Stasis)
40. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Non Sequitur
Prolepsis
Deductive Reasoning
Accident
41. beginning repeated at ending
(Argument by) Analogy
Ill
Epanalepsis
Sound
42. Ask a rhetorical question
Analogy
Red Herring
Erotema
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
43. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
False Dichotomy
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Antithesis
Anadiplosis
44. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Rhetoric
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Aristotle
Appeal to Authority
45. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
(Special Topoi for) Science
Formal Debate
Litotes
46. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Commonplaces
Litotes
Refutation Potential
Locus of Quantity
47. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Sophist
(Argument from) Narrative
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Stock Issues
48. 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)
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Hyperbole
Erotema
Fallacy Fallacy
49. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
(Argument of ) General probability
Locus of Essence
Presumption
50. Opposite of Epistrophe
Loci of the Preferable
(Argument from) Cause
Antithesis
Anaphora