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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Stasis
Manufactroversy
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
2. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Checking for Analogy argument
Procedural (Stasis)
Burden of Rejoinder
Tisias
3. 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.
Tools of Refutation
Stock Issues
Begging the Question
Equivocation
4. 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
Grounds (or data)
(Argument of ) General probability
Blame
5. An argument that follows proper logical form
Syllogism
Valid
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Simile
6. 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
Enthymeme
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
7. 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.
Debate Resolutions
Disassociation of Concepts
Commonplaces
Charisma
8. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Euphimism
Anadiplosis
9. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Erotema
Gorgias
Situationally flawed
Definitional (Stasis)
10. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Definitional (Stasis)
Arguments
(Argument from) Narrative
Questionable Cause
11. 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'
Litotes
Decorum
Term I/Term II
(Argument from) Cause
12. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Rhetoric
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Appeal to Authority
13. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Corax
Syllogism
Appeal to Ignorance
Value Hierarchies
14. '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?
Example
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Analogy
Tu Quoque
15. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
Protagoras
Claim
Vehicle (and) Tenor
16. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Rhetoric
(Argument from) Testimony
Claim
Rhetoric
17. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Litotes
First
Sophist
18. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
Syllogism
Correctio
Simile
19. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Manufactroversy
Straw Person
Personification
Begging the Question
20. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Red Herring
(Argument by) Example
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
21. Ideas repeated
Exergasia
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Refutation
Narrative
22. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Analogy
Manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
Ambiguity
23. 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
Good Will (Ethos)
Hyperbole
Decision Rules
Hasty Generalization
24. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Metaphor
Correctio
Unrepresentative Sample
25. 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
Loci of the Preferable
Checking for Example argument
Antithesis
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
26. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Warrant
Locus of Quality
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Correctio
27. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Small Sample
Fallacies
First
Conceding Arguments
28. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Blame
Syllogism
Tisias
Fallacies
29. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Plato
Mixed Metaphor
Rhetoric
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
30. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Procedural (Stasis)
False Charge of Fallacy
Special Topoi
Burden of Rejoinder
31. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Hasty Generalization
Straw Person
Rhetoric
Popular Democracy
32. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Categorical (Syllogism)
Hyperbole
Checking for Analogy argument
Fallacies
33. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Analogy
Good Will (Ethos)
Aristotle
34. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Presumption
Decision Rules
Good Moral Character
Term I/Term II
35. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Ad Populum
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Epanalepsis
Rhetoric
36. If A then B A Therefore B
Procedural (Stasis)
Modus Ponens
Formal Logic
Checking for Sign argument
37. beginning repeated at ending
Antithesis
Epanalepsis
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Tokenism
38. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Value Hierarchies
Sign
Ill
39. Oral performances that have a set format in which two or more speakers take turns making arguments and counterarguments before an audience - Examples: Court room - candidate debates - academic debates
Exergasia
Attitudinal (inherency)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Formal Debate
40. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Blame
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Epistrophe
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
41. 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.
Straw Person
Epanalepsis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Tokenism
42. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Valid
Corax
Litotes
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
43. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Intelligence
Status
Burden of Rejoinder
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
44. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Metaphor
Presumption
Refutation Strategies
(Fallacy of) Accident
45. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Metaphor
Tisias
Anadiplosis
(Special Topoi for) Science
46. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Intelligence
Anaphora
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Metaphor
47. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Red Herring
Correctio
Testimony
Anaphora
48. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Epistrophe
Narrative
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
49. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
(Argument by) Example
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Claim
Tisias
50. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Gorgias
Unsound
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Value-Oriented Arguments