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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






2. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective






3. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






4. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument






5. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






6. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.






7. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal






8. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






9. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike






10. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____






11. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






12. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.






13. 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)






14. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






15. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






16. Ask a rhetorical question






17. Value Hierarchy Visualization






18. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous






19. 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'






20. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.






21. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides






22. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






23. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.






24. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place






25. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






26. 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?






27. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






28. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?






29. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






30. Term with lower (negative) value






31. 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






32. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?






33. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.






34. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____

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35. Good Moral Character






36. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






37. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'






38. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






39. An argument with true premises and valid form






40. 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'






41. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?






42. Exaggeration






43. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






44. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C






45. Metaphors use ____ and ____






46. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?






47. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






48. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?






49. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning






50. 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