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1. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Straw Person
Litotes
Non Sequitur
Second (or) Third
2. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Small Sample
Red Herring
Structural (inherency)
3. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Arguments
Non Sequitur
Tisias
Euphimism
4. 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'
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
(Argument by) Analogy
(Argument from) Testimony
5. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
False Dichotomy
(Fallacy of) Accident
Ambiguity
Cliche
6. Opposite of Epistrophe
Burden of Rejoinder
Anaphora
Begging the Question
Vehicle (and) Tenor
7. Term with higher (positive) value
Conceding Arguments
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Hasty Generalization
Ethos
8. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Conjectural (Stasis)
Cost
Epistrophe
Ill
9. Reasoning from case to case
Analogy
Procedural (Stasis)
Gorgias
Hyperbole
10. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Gorgias
Hasty Generalization
Checking for Sign argument
Composition
11. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Questionable Cause
Decision Rules
(Argument by) Analogy
Conjectural (Stasis)
12. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
False Dichotomy
Checking for Testimony argument
Grounds (or data)
Red Herring
13. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Enthymeme
Stasis
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
(Argument from) Testimony
14. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
(Argument by) Analogy
Sign
Composition
Stock Issues
15. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Hyperbole
(Fallacy of) Accident
Unrepresentative Sample
Consistency
16. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Tisias
Composition
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
17. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Composition
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Testimony
(Argument from) Narrative
18. 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
Consistency
Anadiplosis
Syllogism
Hyperbole
19. If A then B B Therefore - A
Testimony
Unrepresentative Sample
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Hasty Generalization
20. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Special Topoi
Intelligence
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Aristotle
21. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Stock Issues
Appeal to Ignorance
Consistency
Personification
22. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Anaphora
Division
Epanalepsis
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
23. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Correctio
Division
Second (or) Third
(Fallacy of) Accident
24. 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?
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
False Dichotomy
Blame
Checking for Analogy argument
25. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
Good Will (Ethos)
Locus of Quantity
Anaphora
26. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Situationally flawed
Anaphora
Sound
Personification
27. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Agree on Commonality then refute
Plato
Straw Person
Checking for Example argument
28. 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
Hasty Generalization
Decision Rules
Red Herring
Refutation
29. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Euphimism
Red Herring
Locus of Essence
Vehicle (and) Tenor
30. Opposite of Hyperbole
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Testimony
Incrementum
Litotes
31. The list that builds
Incrementum
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Fallacy Fallacy
Metaphor
32. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Loci of the Preferable
Anadiplosis
Formal Logic
Commonplaces
33. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Begging the Question
Syllogism
Erotema
Metaphor
34. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
(Argument from) Sign
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Turn
35. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Locus of Existence
Correctio
Good Moral Character
36. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Division
Locus of Quantity
Fallacies
Protagoras
37. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Warrant
Associated Commonplaces
Checking for Example argument
Tools of Refutation
38. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Appeal to Authority
Locus of Quantity
Accident
39. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Simile
Prolepsis
Presumption
Accident
40. 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.
Questionable Cause
Ethos
Begging the Question
Litotes
41. Oppostite of Litotes
(Argument from) Testimony
Locus of Quantity
Hyperbole
Unsound
42. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Fallacy Fallacy
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Formal Logic
Division
43. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Fallacy Fallacy
Good Will (Ethos)
Ethos
Anaphora
44. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Categorical (Syllogism)
Conceding Arguments
Good Will (Ethos)
(Argument from) Testimony
45. Ending repeated
Epistrophe
Erotema
Value-Oriented Arguments
Qualitative (Stasis)
46. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
(Argument by) Analogy
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Common Practice (Fallacy)
47. 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.
Refutation Potential
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Commonplaces
Straw Person
48. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
(Fallacy of) Accident
Rhetoric
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Questionable Analogy
49. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Aristotle
Non Sequitur
Incrementum
Parallelism
50. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Hyperbole
Locus of Essence
Mercenary Scientists
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments