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1. 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.
Direct Refutation
Unrepresentative Sample
Burden of proof
Straw Person
2. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Definitional (Stasis)
Narrative
(Argument from) Cause
Common Practice (Fallacy)
3. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Locus of Essence
Refutation
Sound
4. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Prolepsis
Stasis
Appeal to Authority
Grounds (or data)
5. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Litotes
Toulmin Model
Deductive Reasoning
6. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Burden of Rejoinder
Example
Syllogism
(Argument by) Analogy
7. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Questionable Analogy
Charisma
Arguments
Ill
8. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Charisma
Hasty Generalization
Checking for Analogy argument
Mixed Metaphor
9. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Epanalepsis
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Toulmin Model
Manufactroversy
10. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Fallacies
Appeal to Authority
Charisma
Modus Tollens
11. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Tollens
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Modus Ponens
Tisias
12. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Burden of proof
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Locus of Quality
Arguments
13. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Anaphora
Anadiplosis
(Argument by) Example
Blame
14. 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'
Hyperbole
Tokenism
(Argument by) Example
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
15. 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?
Simile
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Anadiplosis
Checking for Example argument
16. 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
Qualitative (Stasis)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
17. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
Equivocation
Correctio
Categorical (Syllogism)
18. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Straw Person
Composition
Exergasia
Locus of Existence
19. 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
Deductive Reasoning
Unrepresentative Sample
Hyperbole
Rhetoric
20. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Non Sequitur
Tu Quoque
Corax
Anadiplosis
21. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Burden of Rejoinder
Quantitative (significance)
Burden of proof
22. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Unequivocal
Locus of Quality
Formal Logic
23. 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.
Begging the Question
Personification
Division
Agree on Commonality then refute
24. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Manufactroversy
(Fallacy of) Accident
Non Sequitur
(Argument from) Sign
25. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Claim
Intelligence
Gorgias
Conjectural (Stasis)
26. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Locus of Quality
(Argument by) Example
Argument
27. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Conceding Arguments
Appeal to Authority
Personification
Term I/Term II
28. 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
Modus Ponens
(Argument by) Analogy
Tisias
Locus of Existence
29. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Questionable Analogy
Status
Fallacies
Shifting the Burden of Proof
30. The list that builds
Prolepsis
Incrementum
Epanalepsis
(Argument of ) General probability
31. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Metaphor
Ill
Accident
Personification
32. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Intelligence
Correctio
Ill
Small Sample
33. Ideas repeated
Definitional (Stasis)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
(Argument by) Analogy
Exergasia
34. 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 -'
Appeal to Ignorance
Non Sequitur
Fallacy Fallacy
Unsound
35. Set two things in opposition
Ambiguity
(Argument of ) General probability
Tisias
Antithesis
36. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Red Herring
Erotema
Exergasia
Litotes
37. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Direct Refutation
(Argument from) Cause
Second (or) Third
Decorum
38. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Locus of Existence
Example
Prolepsis
Intelligence
39. 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
Example
Conceding Arguments
Appeal to Authority
40. 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
Appeal to Authority
Agree on Commonality then refute
Cost
Tokenism
41. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Sophist
Term I/Term II
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
42. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Unequivocal
Procedural (Stasis)
Analogy
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
43. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Sign
Corax
Questionable Analogy
Tu Quoque
44. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Refutation Potential
Appeal to Ignorance
Epanalepsis
Agree on Commonality then refute
45. 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'
Refutation Potential
Hyperbole
Tu Quoque
Turn
46. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Epistrophe
Erotema
Direct Refutation
47. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
(Argument by) Analogy
Hyperbole
Anadiplosis
Claim
48. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Mercenary Scientists
Toulmin Model
Checking for Cause argement
49. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Toulmin Model
Procedural (Stasis)
Syllogism
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
50. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Special Topoi
Anaphora
Popular Democracy
Division
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