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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. '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?






2. 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?






3. 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?






4. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success






5. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?






6. If A then B A Therefore B






7. 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.






8. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






9. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original






10. Deliberate correction






11. An argument with true premises and valid form






12. 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?






13. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?






14. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.






15. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?






16. Beginning repeated






17. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?






18. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.






19. 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






20. A or B Not A Therefore - B






21. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue






22. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






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






24. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)






25. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






26. Ask a rhetorical question






27. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place






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






29. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






30. 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






31. 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'






32. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






33. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?






34. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






35. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.






36. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






37. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






38. 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?






39. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






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






41. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






42. 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:






43. 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 -'






44. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






45. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?






46. 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






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






48. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.






49. Appeals from the character of the speaker






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