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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
Arguments
Ambiguity
Charisma
2. 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
Litotes
Manufactroversy
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Stock Issues
3. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Fallacy Fallacy
Protagoras
Equivocation
4. Oppostite of Litotes
Begging the Question
First
Rhetoric
Hyperbole
5. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Presumption
First
Plato
Prolepsis
6. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Appeal to Ignorance
Epistrophe
Hasty Generalization
7. What vehicles and tenors share
Parallelism
Associated Commonplaces
Composition
Epistrophe
8. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Anaphora
Refutation Strategies
Ethos
Ambiguity
9. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Anaphora
(Fallacy of) Accident
Euphimism
10. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Non Sequitur
Sound
Appeal to Authority
Conceding Arguments
11. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Sign
Stasis
Hasty Generalization
Metaphor
12. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Blame
(Fallacy of) Accident
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Burden of proof
13. Term with lower (negative) value
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Burden of Rejoinder
Categorical (Syllogism)
Agree on Commonality then refute
14. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Definitional (Stasis)
Composition
Quantitative (significance)
Associated Commonplaces
15. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Composition
Turn
Exergasia
Ambiguity
16. Understatement
Litotes
Intelligence
Ill
Hyperbole
17. Set two things in opposition
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Unrepresentative Sample
Antithesis
Checking for Analogy argument
18. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Epistrophe
(Argument of ) General probability
Personification
Locus of Essence
19. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Second
Unequivocal
Structural (inherency)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
20. 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
Erotema
Agree on Commonality then refute
Sound
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
21. 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
Questionable Cause
Epistrophe
Fallacy Fallacy
22. Exaggeration
Tools of Refutation
First
Hyperbole
Appeal to Ignorance
23. beginning repeated at ending
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Hyperbole
Rhetoric
Epanalepsis
24. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Anadiplosis
Small Sample
Appeal to Ignorance
25. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Burden of proof
Associated Commonplaces
Exergasia
Arguments
26. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Blame
Popular Democracy
Checking for Testimony argument
27. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Rhetoric
Structural (inherency)
Decorum
28. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Decorum
Tu Quoque
Categorical (Syllogism)
Informal Debate
29. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Composition
(Argument by) Analogy
Erotema
Aristotle
30. Ask a rhetorical question
Situationally flawed
Enthymeme
Erotema
Stasis
31. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Procedural (Stasis)
Division
Red Herring
Charisma
32. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Hyperbole
Value-Oriented Arguments
Epanalepsis
Emotionally Charged (Language)
33. 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'
Appeal to Ignorance
Epanalepsis
Blame
(Argument by) Example
34. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Rhetoric
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Accident
Unsound
35. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Modus Tollens
Exergasia
Epistrophe
36. 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
Blame
Fallacies
Formal Debate
Division
37. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Epistrophe
Sign
Stasis
Anaphora
38. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Equivocation
First
Anaphora
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
39. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Formal Logic
Antithesis
Division
Appeal to Ignorance
40. An argument that follows proper logical form
Claim
Plato
Consistency
Valid
41. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Appeal to Ignorance
Blame
Unequivocal
Unrepresentative Sample
42. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Division
Hyperbole
Epanalepsis
Mercenary Scientists
43. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Anaphora
(Argument from) Narrative
Fallacies
Plato
44. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Hyperbole
Categorical (Syllogism)
Rhetoric
45. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Parallelism
Special Topoi
Anadiplosis
Epistrophe
46. 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
Small Sample
Mixed Metaphor
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
47. Opposite of Anaphora
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Non Sequitur
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Epistrophe
48. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Warrant
Toulmin Model
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Mixed Metaphor
49. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Agree on Commonality then refute
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Cost
Tu Quoque
50. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B
(Argument by) Analogy
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Tisias