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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Hyperbole
Tu Quoque
Locus of Quality
First
2. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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3. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Stasis
Modus Ponens
Example
Erotema
4. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Hyperbole
Cure
Arguments
Non Sequitur
5. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Sophist
Unrepresentative Sample
Structural (inherency)
Unsound
6. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
Informal Debate
Narrative
Situationally flawed
7. Term with higher (positive) value
Questionable Analogy
Litotes
Modus Tollens
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
8. Good Moral Character
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Antithesis
Questionable Analogy
Hyperbole
9. 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:
Valid
Qualitative (Stasis)
Division
Blame
10. Beginning repeated
Anaphora
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Tools of Refutation
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
11. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Term I/Term II
Isocrates
Correctio
Begging the Question
12. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Blame
Toulmin Model
Checking for Testimony argument
Formal Logic
13. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Ethos
Good Will (Ethos)
Tools of Refutation
Ad Hominem
14. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Red Herring
Parallelism
Second
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
15. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Refutation
Categorical (Syllogism)
Equivocation
(Fallacy of) Accident
16. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Enthymeme
(Special Topoi for) Science
Testimony
Hyperbole
17. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Tools of Refutation
Equivocation
Second (or) Third
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
18. Ending repeated
Formal Debate
Epistrophe
Decision Rules
Conceding Arguments
19. 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
Epanalepsis
Formal Debate
Composition
20. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
(Argument from) Sign
Conjectural (Stasis)
Conceding Arguments
Claim
21. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Anaphora
Popular Democracy
Charisma
22. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Ethos
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Personification
Anadiplosis
23. If A then B A Therefore B
Tokenism
Composition
Modus Ponens
Simile
24. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Metaphor
Fallacies
Turn
Attitudinal (inherency)
25. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Tisias
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Checking for Narrative argument
26. Opposite of anadiplosis
Tokenism
Epanalepsis
False Dichotomy
Sound
27. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Mercenary Scientists
Conceding Arguments
Deductive Reasoning
Second (or) Third
28. 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
Manufactroversy
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Burden of proof
Claim
29. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Modus Tollens
Formal Debate
Direct Refutation
30. Opposite of Anaphora
Cost
Epistrophe
Ill
Modus Ponens
31. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
Checking for Analogy argument
Cliche
Checking for Cause argement
Manufactroversy
32. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Epanalepsis
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Definitional (Stasis)
Unequivocal
33. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Correctio
Hyperbole
Anadiplosis
Unequivocal
34. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Prolepsis
Tu Quoque
Value-Oriented Arguments
Ambiguity
35. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Fallacy Fallacy
Division
Analogy
36. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Tools of Refutation
Quantitative (significance)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
37. Can the sign be found without the thing for which it stands? Is an alternative explanation of the maning of the sign more credible? Are there countering signs that indicate that his one sign is false?
Refutation Strategies
Cliche
Checking for Sign argument
Cure
38. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Non Sequitur
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Claim
39. Understatement
Agree on Commonality then refute
Unequivocal
Anaphora
Litotes
40. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Antithesis
Locus of Existence
Deductive Reasoning
Anaphora
41. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
Tokenism
(Argument from) Cause
Popular Democracy
Correctio
42. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Rhetoric
(Argument of ) General probability
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
43. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Hyperbole
Locus of Quantity
Good Will (Ethos)
(Argument by) Example
44. The inference reasons that what a trustworthy source says is true. The warrant to this argument usually says - 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true'
(Argument from) Testimony
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Good Will (Ethos)
Unsound
45. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Aristotle
Antithesis
Burden of Rejoinder
Fallacy Fallacy
46. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Personification
Attitudinal (inherency)
Special Topoi
47. 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'
Conceding Arguments
(Argument from) Sign
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Blame
48. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Argument
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Prolepsis
49. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Tu Quoque
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Tools of Refutation
50. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Parallelism
Second
Litotes
Accident