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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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
Sign
Second (or) Third
Quantitative (significance)
Rhetoric
2. If A then B A Therefore B
Locus of Essence
False Dichotomy
(Argument of ) General probability
Modus Ponens
3. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Enthymeme
Correctio
(Argument from) Cause
Archetypal (Metaphor)
4. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Value-Oriented Arguments
Non Sequitur
Unequivocal
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
5. 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.
Hyperbole
Attitudinal (inherency)
Rhetoric
Disassociation of Concepts
6. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
(Argument from) Sign
Incrementum
(Argument by) Analogy
7. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Value Hierarchies
Sound
False Dichotomy
Quantitative (significance)
8. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Appeal to Authority
Qualitative (Stasis)
Blame
Protagoras
9. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Manufactroversy
Composition
Sound
Toulmin Model
10. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Syllogism
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Anaphora
False Charge of Fallacy
11. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Tu Quoque
Accident
Epanalepsis
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
12. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Grounds (or data)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Division
Accident
13. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Tu Quoque
Enthymeme
Refutation
Rhetoric
14. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Loci of the Preferable
Unequivocal
Locus of Essence
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
15. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Correctio
Rhetoric
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Refutation Potential
16. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Analogy
Turn
Value-Oriented Arguments
Conjectural (Stasis)
17. Beginning repeated
Parallelism
Anaphora
Argument
Loci of the Preferable
18. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Warrant
Sign
19. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Definitional (Stasis)
Decorum
Tools of Refutation
(Argument of ) General probability
20. 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
Narrative
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Testimony
Good Will (Ethos)
21. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Correctio
Epistrophe
Tokenism
22. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
Rhetoric
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Epistrophe
23. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Epistrophe
False Dichotomy
Tu Quoque
Cliche
24. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Non Sequitur
Appeal to Authority
Antithesis
(Argument from) Sign
25. 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
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Locus of Quality
Litotes
Decision Rules
26. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Qualitative (Stasis)
Checking for Narrative argument
Ill
Valid
27. 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
Agree on Commonality then refute
Categorical (Syllogism)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Rhetoric
28. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Accident
Erotema
Division
29. 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'
Checking for Sign argument
(Argument from) Cause
Composition
Blame
30. 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.
Exergasia
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Ignorance
Tu Quoque
31. 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'
Checking for Cause argement
(Argument by) Example
Good Moral Character
Ad Hominem
32. The list that builds
Tools of Refutation
Hyperbole
Incrementum
Personification
33. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Anaphora
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Incrementum
Non Sequitur
34. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Ill
Locus of Quantity
Epistrophe
Intelligence
35. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Anadiplosis
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Debate Resolutions
Metaphor
36. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Presumption
Decision Rules
Ad Hominem
Questionable Analogy
37. 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'
Manufactroversy
Anadiplosis
Hyperbole
(Argument from) Testimony
38. 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?
Parallelism
Exergasia
Checking for Sign argument
Ethos
39. 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.
Litotes
Debate Resolutions
Begging the Question
Blame
40. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Situationally flawed
Litotes
Grounds (or data)
Toulmin Model
41. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Epistrophe
Tisias
Analogy
42. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Anadiplosis
Protagoras
Appeal to Ignorance
Tokenism
43. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Appeal to Authority
Erotema
Quantitative (significance)
Anaphora
44. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Categorical (Syllogism)
Manufactroversy
Debate Resolutions
Deductive Reasoning
45. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacies
Structural (inherency)
Locus of Existence
Loci of the Preferable
46. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Hyperbole
Cure
(Special Topoi for) Science
47. What vehicles and tenors share
Enthymeme
Informal Debate
Quantitative (significance)
Associated Commonplaces
48. 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
Special Topoi
Straw Person
Burden of proof
49. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Epanalepsis
Mercenary Scientists
Correctio
50. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Cure
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Rhetoric
Red Herring