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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Tisias
Status
Modus Ponens
(Argument by) Example
2. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Non Sequitur
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Narrative
Warrant
3. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Decision Rules
Epanalepsis
(Argument from) Sign
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
4. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Modus Tollens
Red Herring
Anaphora
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
5. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Turn
Plato
Definitional (Stasis)
Accident
6. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Refutation
Protagoras
Exergasia
7. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Informal Debate
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Litotes
Agree on Commonality then refute
8. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Blame
Division
First
Checking for Example argument
9. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Red Herring
Correctio
Composition
Hyperbole
10. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Debate Resolutions
False Charge of Fallacy
Metaphor
Appeal to Ignorance
11. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Enthymeme
Parallelism
Loci of the Preferable
Burden of proof
12. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Cliche
Ad Populum
Presumption
Arguments
13. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Begging the Question
Litotes
Prolepsis
14. beginning repeated at ending
Valid
Modus Tollens
Epanalepsis
Aristotle
15. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Hyperbole
Cost
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Modus Tollens
16. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Gorgias
False Dichotomy
Refutation
Formal Logic
17. 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?
Situationally flawed
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Checking for Cause argement
Locus of Essence
18. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Locus of Quantity
False Dichotomy
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Common Practice (Fallacy)
19. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Division
Status
Epistrophe
20. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
Ill
Ad Populum
Decision Rules
(Argument from) Cause
21. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Attitudinal (inherency)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Sound
Fallacies
22. Good Moral Character
Composition
Composition
Equivocation
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
23. 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'
Non Sequitur
Ad Hominem
(Argument by) Analogy
Rhetoric
24. 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'
Tu Quoque
Begging the Question
Litotes
(Argument by) Example
25. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
False Dichotomy
Anadiplosis
Non Sequitur
Argument
26. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Categorical (Syllogism)
Value-Oriented Arguments
27. 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
Red Herring
Formal Debate
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Questionable Analogy
28. Can the sign be found without the thing for which it stands? Is an alternative explanation of the maning of the sign more credible? Are there countering signs that indicate that his one sign is false?
Checking for Sign argument
Ad Populum
Sound
Argument
29. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacies
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Epistrophe
Structural (inherency)
30. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Sign
Antithesis
(Argument from) Testimony
Hyperbole
31. Oppostite of Litotes
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Hyperbole
Direct Refutation
Parallelism
32. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Quantitative (significance)
(Argument from) Narrative
Turn
Fallacies
33. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Simile
Good Will (Ethos)
Enthymeme
34. 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
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Agree on Commonality then refute
35. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Conjectural (Stasis)
Debate Resolutions
Consistency
Checking for Analogy argument
36. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Composition
Fallacies
Rhetoric
37. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Metaphor
Cliche
Value-Oriented Arguments
Prolepsis
38. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Term I/Term II
Disassociation of Concepts
Ambiguity
39. Understatement
Litotes
Informal Debate
Correctio
Ad Hominem
40. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Sign
Grounds (or data)
Locus of Existence
Appeal to Authority
41. Opposite of Hyperbole
Locus of Quantity
Appeal to Authority
Conceding Arguments
Litotes
42. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.
Ambiguity
Syllogism
Tu Quoque
Debate Resolutions
43. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Simile
Corax
Burden of Rejoinder
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
44. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Metaphor
(Argument of ) General probability
Stock Issues
Status
45. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Toulmin Model
Sound
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Locus of Quality
46. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Blame
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Prolepsis
Simile
47. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Agree on Commonality then refute
Division
Good Moral Character
Second
48. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Checking for Sign argument
Analogy
Rhetoric
49. Set two things in opposition
Antithesis
Arguments
Correctio
Toulmin Model
50. 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:
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Ethos
Blame
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)