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1. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Litotes
Structural (inherency)
Straw Person
Commonplaces
2. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Appeal to Authority
Consistency
Checking for Testimony argument
Situationally flawed
3. 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?
Metaphor
Unsound
Argument
Checking for Example argument
4. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
(Special Topoi for) Science
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Syllogism
Categorical (Syllogism)
5. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Metaphor
Conjectural (Stasis)
Erotema
Informal Debate
6. The list that builds
Incrementum
Warrant
Enthymeme
Litotes
7. 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'
Enthymeme
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Unrepresentative Sample
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
8. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Refutation
Example
Questionable Analogy
Anadiplosis
9. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Hyperbole
10. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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11. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Charisma
False Dichotomy
Popular Democracy
12. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Simile
Second
(Argument from) Cause
Quantitative (significance)
13. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Deductive Reasoning
Begging the Question
Checking for Cause argement
Anadiplosis
14. Structure repeated
Parallelism
Situationally flawed
Small Sample
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
15. 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
(Argument by) Analogy
(Argument by) Example
Questionable Analogy
Isocrates
16. 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'
Locus of Quantity
Decision Rules
Tu Quoque
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
17. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Checking for Analogy argument
Informal Debate
Procedural (Stasis)
(Special Topoi for) Science
18. A manufactured controversy that is motivated by profit or extreme ideology to intentionally create confusion in the public about an issue of scientific fact that is not in dispute by the scientific community. Used to stop debate at the conjectural le
Fallacy Fallacy
Manufactroversy
(Special Topoi for) Science
Informal Debate
19. 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
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Antithesis
Agree on Commonality then refute
Epanalepsis
20. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Refutation Strategies
Ad Populum
Correctio
Commonplaces
21. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Special Topoi
Locus of Quantity
Stock Issues
(Fallacy of) Accident
22. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Unequivocal
(Fallacy of) Accident
Sign
Exergasia
23. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Antithesis
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Argument
Personification
24. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Blame
Hyperbole
Loci of the Preferable
25. Beginning repeated
Parallelism
Simile
Parallelism
Anaphora
26. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Analogy
Claim
Non Sequitur
Plato
27. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Locus of Essence
Blame
Appeal to Ignorance
Disassociation of Concepts
28. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Rhetoric
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Analogy
29. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Corax
Anaphora
Blame
Archetypal (Metaphor)
30. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Presumption
Questionable Cause
(Argument of ) General probability
Debate Resolutions
31. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
False Dichotomy
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Conjectural (Stasis)
32. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Debate Resolutions
Composition
Stock Issues
(Fallacy of) Accident
33. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Sophist
Rhetoric
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Commonplaces
34. Ask a rhetorical question
Example
Erotema
Agree on Commonality then refute
Fallacies
35. 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)
Fallacy Fallacy
Locus of Quality
Tu Quoque
Rhetoric
36. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Qualitative (Stasis)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Hasty Generalization
37. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
False Dichotomy
Checking for Testimony argument
Arguments
Deductive Reasoning
38. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'
Division
Non Sequitur
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Example
39. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Refutation Strategies
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Checking for Example argument
40. 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
Cost
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Syllogism
Hasty Generalization
41. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Prolepsis
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Second
Attitudinal (inherency)
42. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population
Ethos
Small Sample
Appeal to Authority
False Charge of Fallacy
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.
Ad Populum
Epistrophe
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Unrepresentative Sample
44. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument from) Narrative
Formal Logic
(Argument of ) General probability
Non Sequitur
45. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Parallelism
False Dichotomy
Cliche
46. 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'
Epanalepsis
Commonplaces
Anadiplosis
Ad Hominem
47. Understatement
Litotes
Euphimism
Locus of Essence
Warrant
48. 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?
Argument
Cost
Checking for Cause argement
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
49. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Mixed Metaphor
Second
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
50. Circular Reasoning
Tisias
Mercenary Scientists
Sign
Begging the Question
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