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1. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Agree on Commonality then refute
Tu Quoque
Metaphor
2. Opposite of anadiplosis
Modus Tollens
Formal Logic
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Epanalepsis
3. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Presumption
Rhetoric
(Argument from) Cause
4. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Burden of Rejoinder
Personification
Term I/Term II
Appeal to Authority
5. What vehicles and tenors share
Erotema
Associated Commonplaces
Commonplaces
(Special Topoi for) Science
6. 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'
Non Sequitur
Sign
(Argument from) Testimony
Emotionally Charged (Language)
7. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Rhetoric
Charisma
Unequivocal
Equivocation
8. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Rhetoric
Tu Quoque
9. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Appeal to Ignorance
Decision Rules
Tu Quoque
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
10. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Red Herring
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Epistrophe
11. Understatement
Litotes
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Tokenism
12. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Presumption
(Special Topoi for) Science
Division
Claim
13. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Decision Rules
Analogy
14. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Charisma
Tokenism
Second
Hyperbole
15. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Prolepsis
Sophist
Modus Tollens
Isocrates
16. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Questionable Cause
Structural (inherency)
Rhetoric
Prolepsis
17. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Toulmin Model
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Exergasia
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
18. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Begging the Question
Qualitative (Stasis)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
19. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Division
Ill
Questionable Analogy
Rhetoric
20. 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.
Non Sequitur
Simile
Straw Person
Gorgias
21. After this - therefore on account of this
Sign
Gorgias
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
(Fallacy of) Accident
22. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Aristotle
Locus of Essence
Epanalepsis
Structural (inherency)
23. Circular Reasoning
Status
Burden of Rejoinder
Decorum
Begging the Question
24. An argument with true premises and valid form
Sound
Equivocation
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Sign
25. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Mercenary Scientists
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Hyperbole
Conceding Arguments
26. Reasoning from case to case
Erotema
Analogy
Incrementum
Antithesis
27. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Erotema
Division
Cure
28. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Plato
(Argument by) Analogy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument from) Cause
29. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Metaphor
Tools of Refutation
Anadiplosis
30. Structure repeated
Parallelism
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Good Will (Ethos)
Agree on Commonality then refute
31. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Cliche
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Associated Commonplaces
Status
32. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Claim
Formal Debate
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Anadiplosis
33. 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?
Erotema
Conceding Arguments
Decorum
Checking for Cause argement
34. 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
Second (or) Third
Value-Oriented Arguments
Hasty Generalization
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
35. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Value-Oriented Arguments
Checking for Analogy argument
Locus of Existence
Appeal to Authority
36. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Epistrophe
Blame
Equivocation
Quantitative (significance)
37. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Charisma
Analogy
Archetypal (Metaphor)
38. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
Red Herring
Litotes
(Argument from) Testimony
39. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Anaphora
First
Second
Intelligence
40. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Testimony
Appeal to Ignorance
Popular Democracy
Accident
41. 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.
Disassociation of Concepts
Cure
Refutation
Refutation Strategies
42. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Burden of Rejoinder
Checking for Narrative argument
Anaphora
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
43. 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.
Debate Resolutions
Appeal to Authority
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Ad Populum
44. Opposite of Hyperbole
Tu Quoque
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Hyperbole
Litotes
45. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
(Argument from) Testimony
Good Moral Character
Parallelism
Toulmin Model
46. Ideas repeated
(Fallacy of) Accident
Exergasia
Small Sample
Attitudinal (inherency)
47. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument of ) General probability
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Claim
Conceding Arguments
48. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Definitional (Stasis)
Second (or) Third
Debate Resolutions
Tools of Refutation
49. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Non Sequitur
Definitional (Stasis)
Composition
Begging the Question
50. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Modus Ponens
Disassociation of Concepts
Testimony
Anaphora