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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Beginning repeated
Anadiplosis
Anaphora
Tokenism
Deductive Reasoning
2. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Ill
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Litotes
Mercenary Scientists
3. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?
Testimony
Plato
Manufactroversy
Checking for Testimony argument
4. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Correctio
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Composition
5. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Division
Special Topoi
Definitional (Stasis)
6. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Checking for Example argument
Manufactroversy
Rhetoric
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
7. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Syllogism
Value Hierarchies
Epanalepsis
Categorical (Syllogism)
8. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Second
Checking for Example argument
Narrative
Rhetoric
9. 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?
Exergasia
Refutation
Burden of proof
Checking for Sign argument
10. Ending repeated
Epistrophe
Euphimism
(Argument by) Example
Ad Populum
11. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Small Sample
Isocrates
Fallacies
12. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares
Appeal to Ignorance
Loci of the Preferable
Begging the Question
Tokenism
13. 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
Second (or) Third
(Argument from) Testimony
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Rhetoric
14. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Refutation Potential
Categorical (Syllogism)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
15. 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.
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Debate Resolutions
Checking for Cause argement
Non Sequitur
16. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Cliche
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Epanalepsis
Simile
17. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Tokenism
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
False Dichotomy
18. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Hasty Generalization
Ill
Stock Issues
19. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'
Simile
(Argument of ) General probability
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Checking for Testimony argument
20. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Locus of Quantity
Sound
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Metaphor
21. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Epistrophe
Exergasia
Stasis
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
22. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Value-Oriented Arguments
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Division
Division
23. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Sign
Analogy
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
24. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec
Prolepsis
Small Sample
(Argument by) Analogy
Presumption
25. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
(Argument of ) General probability
Procedural (Stasis)
Rhetoric
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
26. After this - therefore on account of this
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Narrative
Valid
Parallelism
27. 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
Epistrophe
Toulmin Model
Rhetoric
28. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Status
Gorgias
Litotes
Charisma
29. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Checking for Cause argement
Equivocation
Division
Consistency
30. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Hyperbole
Hasty Generalization
Decorum
Anaphora
31. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Presumption
Ad Populum
Gorgias
Burden of proof
32. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Manufactroversy
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
33. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Claim
Antithesis
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Tu Quoque
34. Deliberate correction
Checking for Testimony argument
Stock Issues
Formal Logic
Correctio
35. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Ill
Definitional (Stasis)
Simile
First
36. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Structural (inherency)
Term I/Term II
(Argument from) Cause
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
37. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Arguments
38. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Warrant
Composition
39. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Blame
Appeal to Authority
Categorical (Syllogism)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
40. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Cost
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Popular Democracy
41. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Second (or) Third
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Formal Logic
Archetypal (Metaphor)
42. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Presumption
(Argument from) Sign
Anadiplosis
43. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.
Formal Debate
Fallacy Fallacy
Anaphora
Unrepresentative Sample
44. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Claim
Stock Issues
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Conjectural (Stasis)
45. Opposite of Anaphora
Epistrophe
Refutation Potential
Presumption
Second (or) Third
46. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Antithesis
Questionable Cause
Red Herring
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
47. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Checking for Analogy argument
Testimony
Arguments
Parallelism
48. 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
Unrepresentative Sample
Example
Formal Debate
Checking for Analogy argument
49. beginning repeated at ending
Decision Rules
Anadiplosis
Epanalepsis
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
50. Opposite of Epistrophe
Informal Debate
Anaphora
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Burden of Rejoinder