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Public Debating
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1. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Non Sequitur
Refutation Strategies
Ill
Value-Oriented Arguments
2. 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.
False Charge of Fallacy
Begging the Question
Good Will (Ethos)
Metaphor
3. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Claim
First
Litotes
Attitudinal (inherency)
4. After this - therefore on account of this
Categorical (Syllogism)
Epistrophe
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Sign
5. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Checking for Example argument
Deductive Reasoning
Presumption
Good Will (Ethos)
6. 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
First
Anaphora
Direct Refutation
7. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Composition
Rhetoric
Sign
8. Term with higher (positive) value
Conceding Arguments
(Fallacy of) Accident
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
9. 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'
Begging the Question
Tu Quoque
Locus of Quantity
Popular Democracy
10. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Second (or) Third
False Dichotomy
Second
Value Hierarchies
11. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B
Hasty Generalization
Categorical (Syllogism)
Loci of the Preferable
Cure
12. Opposite of anadiplosis
Epanalepsis
Special Topoi
Tokenism
Rhetoric
13. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Intelligence
Conceding Arguments
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Example
14. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Common Practice (Fallacy)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Unequivocal
Warrant
15. 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
Litotes
Antithesis
Checking for Narrative argument
Manufactroversy
16. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Good Will (Ethos)
Small Sample
Tu Quoque
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
17. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Fallacies
Correctio
Second (or) Third
Metaphor
18. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Rhetoric
Disassociation of Concepts
Anaphora
Gorgias
19. Good Moral Character
Burden of proof
Anadiplosis
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Composition
20. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Stock Issues
Deductive Reasoning
Accident
(Argument by) Analogy
21. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Informal Debate
Non Sequitur
Ad Hominem
22. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Litotes
Testimony
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Second (or) Third
23. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Cost
First
Modus Tollens
24. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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25. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Ambiguity
Equivocation
Refutation
Checking for Sign argument
26. beginning repeated at ending
Epanalepsis
Syllogism
Good Moral Character
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
27. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Tokenism
Ad Populum
Narrative
Metaphor
28. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Conceding Arguments
Ill
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Categorical (Syllogism)
29. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Ad Populum
Structural (inherency)
Division
Informal Debate
30. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Refutation Potential
Stasis
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
31. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Isocrates
Procedural (Stasis)
Rhetoric
(Argument from) Sign
32. Set two things in opposition
Situationally flawed
Deductive Reasoning
Claim
Antithesis
33. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Sign
Protagoras
Red Herring
Turn
34. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Quantitative (significance)
Rhetoric
Valid
35. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Prolepsis
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Value-Oriented Arguments
Decorum
36. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares
Locus of Essence
Loci of the Preferable
Structural (inherency)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
37. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Sign
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Checking for Narrative argument
38. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Non Sequitur
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Second (or) Third
Tu Quoque
39. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Locus of Existence
Decision Rules
Small Sample
40. 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.
(Argument from) Cause
Debate Resolutions
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Sound
41. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Mixed Metaphor
Manufactroversy
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Modus Ponens
42. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
(Special Topoi for) Science
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Informal Debate
Epistrophe
43. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
First
Modus Tollens
Appeal to Ignorance
44. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Metaphor
Popular Democracy
Appeal to Ignorance
Division
45. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Argument
Categorical (Syllogism)
Sign
Rhetoric
46. 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
Epanalepsis
Ill
Red Herring
Narrative
47. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
(Argument from) Testimony
Narrative
Antithesis
Anaphora
48. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Ethos
Appeal to Ignorance
First
Definitional (Stasis)
49. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
(Argument by) Example
Epanalepsis
Simile
Testimony
50. 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
Special Topoi
Small Sample
Structural (inherency)