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1. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo
Tokenism
Decision Rules
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Shifting the Burden of Proof
2. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Grounds (or data)
Burden of proof
Ethos
Refutation Strategies
3. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Ill
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Conjectural (Stasis)
Metaphor
4. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
Antithesis
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
5. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Conceding Arguments
Parallelism
Euphimism
6. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Blame
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Epistrophe
7. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Fallacy Fallacy
Procedural (Stasis)
Toulmin Model
8. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Value Hierarchies
Litotes
Unsound
Burden of proof
9. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Grounds (or data)
Cost
Analogy
Locus of Essence
10. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Fallacy Fallacy
Ad Populum
(Argument from) Narrative
Rhetoric
11. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Refutation
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Agree on Commonality then refute
Division
12. 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
Hasty Generalization
Term I/Term II
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Popular Democracy
13. What vehicles and tenors share
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Associated Commonplaces
Checking for Sign argument
Cliche
14. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Second
Gorgias
Anadiplosis
Burden of Rejoinder
15. Understatement
Litotes
Argument
Begging the Question
Blame
16. Reasoning from case to case
Decision Rules
Categorical (Syllogism)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Analogy
17. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Second
Corax
Agree on Commonality then refute
18. 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.
Epanalepsis
Epanalepsis
Informal Debate
Debate Resolutions
19. 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
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Hasty Generalization
Manufactroversy
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
20. Structure repeated
Hasty Generalization
Straw Person
Anadiplosis
Parallelism
21. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Intelligence
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Epistrophe
Cliche
22. 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.
Straw Person
Disassociation of Concepts
Burden of proof
Division
23. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Begging the Question
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Quantitative (significance)
Anaphora
24. 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
Formal Debate
Agree on Commonality then refute
Categorical (Syllogism)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
25. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Locus of Quantity
Blame
Epanalepsis
26. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Charisma
False Dichotomy
Ad Populum
Formal Debate
27. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Toulmin Model
Claim
(Argument of ) General probability
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
28. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Rhetoric
Refutation
Formal Logic
Exergasia
29. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Euphimism
Equivocation
(Argument from) Cause
Blame
30. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Aristotle
Toulmin Model
Sign
(Argument from) Narrative
31. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Locus of Quality
False Dichotomy
Example
(Argument from) Testimony
32. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Modus Tollens
Stock Issues
Epistrophe
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
33. Circular Reasoning
Corax
Division
Begging the Question
Presumption
34. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Qualitative (Stasis)
Anaphora
Direct Refutation
35. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Blame
Anadiplosis
Sign
Enthymeme
36. 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.
Begging the Question
Litotes
Enthymeme
Special Topoi
37. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Non Sequitur
Qualitative (Stasis)
Hasty Generalization
Unsound
38. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
First
Procedural (Stasis)
Presumption
Anaphora
39. Term with higher (positive) value
Manufactroversy
Tokenism
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Modus Ponens
40. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Arguments
Charisma
Refutation Strategies
Burden of proof
41. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Procedural (Stasis)
Non Sequitur
Correctio
Corax
42. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Checking for Example argument
Hyperbole
Ad Hominem
Turn
43. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Fallacies
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Decorum
Epistrophe
44. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Arguments
False Dichotomy
Litotes
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
45. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Consistency
Fallacy Fallacy
Epistrophe
Deductive Reasoning
46. 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
Mercenary Scientists
Formal Debate
Rhetoric
Incrementum
47. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Locus of Quantity
Hyperbole
(Argument by) Example
Non Sequitur
48. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Sign
Presumption
Locus of Quantity
Disassociation of Concepts
49. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
(Special Topoi for) Science
Exergasia
Fallacies
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
50. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Straw Person
Checking for Cause argement
Structural (inherency)
Modus Tollens