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Public Debating

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






2. If A then B A Therefore B






3. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






4. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)






5. Beginning repeated






6. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






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






8. 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.






9. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)






10. Opposite of Epistrophe






11. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






12. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






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






14. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas






15. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate






16. Opposite of Hyperbole






17. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost






18. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____


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






20. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






21. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members






22. Ideas repeated






23. 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'






24. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






25. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts






26. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






27. Reasoning from case to case






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






32. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones






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






34. A or B Not A Therefore - B






35. An argument that follows proper logical form






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






37. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category






38. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'






39. 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?






40. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






41. '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?






42. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)






43. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






44. Exaggeration






45. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






46. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)






47. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'






48. If A then B Not B Therefore not A






49. 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?






50. Structure repeated