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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Non Sequitur
Refutation Potential
Sophist
Associated Commonplaces
2. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Euphimism
Checking for Example argument
3. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Exergasia
Metaphor
Narrative
Checking for Testimony argument
4. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Status
First
Gorgias
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
5. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Informal Debate
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Litotes
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
6. If A then B B Therefore - A
Parallelism
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Formal Logic
7. Exaggeration
Burden of proof
Checking for Analogy argument
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Hyperbole
8. 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
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Arguments
(Argument from) Sign
Small Sample
9. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Charisma
Special Topoi
Appeal to Authority
Structural (inherency)
10. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Antithesis
Litotes
(Fallacy of) Accident
Sign
11. 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
Qualitative (Stasis)
Sound
(Argument from) Testimony
Loci of the Preferable
12. 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?
Appeal to Authority
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Checking for Cause argement
Simile
13. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
False Dichotomy
Quantitative (significance)
Locus of Existence
14. Term with lower (negative) value
Ill
Division
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Categorical (Syllogism)
15. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Tu Quoque
(Argument from) Cause
Procedural (Stasis)
16. 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:
Blame
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Antithesis
Presumption
17. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
Checking for Testimony argument
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Direct Refutation
18. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Exergasia
Value Hierarchies
Arguments
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
19. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Status
Appeal to Authority
Personification
Commonplaces
20. 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
Situationally flawed
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Argument
Categorical (Syllogism)
21. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Claim
Locus of Quality
Blame
Mixed Metaphor
22. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Personification
Warrant
Aristotle
Anadiplosis
23. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Gorgias
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Enthymeme
Questionable Analogy
24. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Tools of Refutation
(Special Topoi for) Science
Non Sequitur
Parallelism
25. 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.
Unrepresentative Sample
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument from) Cause
Burden of Rejoinder
26. Good Moral Character
Euphimism
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Syllogism
27. Set two things in opposition
Ill
Antithesis
Checking for Cause argement
Blame
28. beginning repeated at ending
Syllogism
Tools of Refutation
Questionable Cause
Epanalepsis
29. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Correctio
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Aristotle
30. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Sign
Appeal to Ignorance
Categorical (Syllogism)
Epistrophe
31. Who developed the argument from general probability?
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Corax
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Ethos
32. Term with higher (positive) value
Personification
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Composition
Hyperbole
33. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Qualitative (Stasis)
Personification
(Argument from) Sign
Burden of proof
34. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Protagoras
Direct Refutation
False Dichotomy
Tools of Refutation
35. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Litotes
Warrant
Tokenism
Unequivocal
36. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Sign
Ill
Informal Debate
Blame
37. 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
Rhetoric
Correctio
Good Will (Ethos)
Refutation Potential
38. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Checking for Example argument
Hyperbole
Analogy
Tokenism
39. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Ambiguity
Isocrates
Value-Oriented Arguments
Accident
40. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Parallelism
Grounds (or data)
Equivocation
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
41. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Value-Oriented Arguments
Claim
Associated Commonplaces
Incrementum
42. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Disassociation of Concepts
Consistency
Burden of Rejoinder
Term I/Term II
43. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Epanalepsis
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Deductive Reasoning
44. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
Checking for Sign argument
Corax
Epistrophe
45. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Informal Debate
Locus of Quality
Anadiplosis
Tu Quoque
46. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Erotema
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Categorical (Syllogism)
Exergasia
47. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Quantitative (significance)
Hyperbole
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Erotema
48. The inference moves from specific to general or from general to specific. The warrant to this argument usually reads 'what is true in this case is true in general' or 'what is true in general is true in this case'
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
(Argument by) Example
Plato
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
49. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.
Straw Person
Burden of proof
Disassociation of Concepts
Decorum
50. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Syllogism
Mixed Metaphor
Accident