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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals
Agree on Commonality then refute
Begging the Question
Associated Commonplaces
Presumption
2. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Erotema
Ill
Burden of Rejoinder
Isocrates
3. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Arguments
Consistency
Narrative
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
4. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Epistrophe
(Argument of ) General probability
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
5. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Common Practice (Fallacy)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
(Argument of ) General probability
6. An argument with true premises and valid form
Modus Tollens
Second
Sound
Checking for Example argument
7. Ask a rhetorical question
Composition
Sound
Erotema
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
8. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Checking for Testimony argument
Burden of proof
Blame
Structural (inherency)
9. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Status
(Argument of ) General probability
Non Sequitur
10. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Accident
Erotema
Informal Debate
Grounds (or data)
11. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Charisma
Litotes
Special Topoi
12. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Erotema
Second
Turn
13. If A then B B Therefore - A
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Straw Person
Good Moral Character
14. Set two things in opposition
Division
Antithesis
Division
Parallelism
15. After this - therefore on account of this
Loci of the Preferable
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Red Herring
Personification
16. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Accident
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
(Fallacy of) Accident
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
17. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Epanalepsis
Rhetoric
Burden of Rejoinder
18. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Hyperbole
Narrative
Anadiplosis
Burden of Rejoinder
19. Opposite of Epistrophe
Anaphora
Hyperbole
Cliche
Questionable Analogy
20. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Equivocation
Decorum
Epanalepsis
Qualitative (Stasis)
21. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Attitudinal (inherency)
Blame
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Consistency
22. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done
Arguments
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Prolepsis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
23. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Anadiplosis
Sign
Blame
Term I/Term II
24. 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.
Red Herring
Modus Ponens
Unrepresentative Sample
Refutation Potential
25. Understatement
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Mixed Metaphor
Litotes
(Fallacy of) Accident
26. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Metaphor
Sign
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
(Argument by) Example
27. Opposite of Hyperbole
Blame
Epanalepsis
Litotes
Isocrates
28. 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.
Appeal to Authority
Narrative
Tu Quoque
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
29. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Good Will (Ethos)
Checking for Narrative argument
Tisias
Parallelism
30. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'
(Argument by) Analogy
Tisias
Loci of the Preferable
Ad Hominem
31. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
(Special Topoi for) Science
Popular Democracy
(Argument by) Analogy
32. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Value Hierarchies
Status
Tu Quoque
Testimony
33. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Begging the Question
Categorical (Syllogism)
Decorum
Ad Populum
34. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Stock Issues
Epistrophe
Blame
Incrementum
35. 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?
Checking for Example argument
Questionable Cause
Cure
Checking for Cause argement
36. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Toulmin Model
Non Sequitur
Locus of Existence
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
37. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Division
Cure
Anadiplosis
38. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Definitional (Stasis)
Ambiguity
Conceding Arguments
Ethos
39. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Claim
Metaphor
40. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Formal Logic
Red Herring
Arguments
Ad Populum
41. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Epanalepsis
Euphimism
Division
Non Sequitur
42. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Rhetoric
Turn
Refutation Strategies
Qualitative (Stasis)
43. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Agree on Commonality then refute
Correctio
Grounds (or data)
Rhetoric
44. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Direct Refutation
Simile
False Dichotomy
45. Beginning repeated
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Structural (inherency)
Ill
Anaphora
46. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Anadiplosis
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Tu Quoque
Rhetoric
47. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
(Fallacy of) Accident
Sound
Plato
Warrant
48. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Small Sample
Anadiplosis
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Unsound
49. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Tollens
Rhetoric
Appeal to Authority
Modus Ponens
50. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Presumption
Consistency
Accident
Disjunctive (Syllogism)