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1. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Hasty Generalization
Fallacies
First
Hyperbole
2. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
Informal Debate
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
False Charge of Fallacy
3. 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'
Aristotle
Tu Quoque
Isocrates
Small Sample
4. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Questionable Cause
Appeal to Ignorance
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Ambiguity
5. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Agree on Commonality then refute
Burden of Rejoinder
Corax
6. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
Exergasia
Appeal to Ignorance
Antithesis
7. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Rhetoric
Status
Antithesis
Fallacies
8. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Presumption
Tokenism
Formal Logic
Conceding Arguments
9. 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
(Argument from) Testimony
Decision Rules
Checking for Analogy argument
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
10. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
(Argument by) Example
Epistrophe
Argument
Tools of Refutation
11. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Accident
Categorical (Syllogism)
Refutation Potential
(Argument from) Sign
12. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Composition
Mercenary Scientists
Corax
Valid
13. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Valid
Checking for Example argument
Division
Cure
14. Structure repeated
Small Sample
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Parallelism
Manufactroversy
15. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Toulmin Model
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Composition
Analogy
16. Ending repeated
Ill
Cost
Epistrophe
Modus Ponens
17. Term with higher (positive) value
Burden of Rejoinder
Ill
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Turn
18. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true
Incrementum
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Epanalepsis
Ill
19. 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?
(Special Topoi for) Science
Good Moral Character
Checking for Sign argument
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
20. 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
False Dichotomy
Agree on Commonality then refute
Epistrophe
Checking for Testimony argument
21. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Non Sequitur
Division
Hasty Generalization
22. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Litotes
Toulmin Model
Appeal to Authority
Charisma
23. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
Antithesis
Unsound
Erotema
24. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
(Special Topoi for) Science
Checking for Testimony argument
Non Sequitur
Questionable Cause
25. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Second (or) Third
Locus of Quantity
Stock Issues
26. beginning repeated at ending
Epanalepsis
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Sound
Aristotle
27. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
(Fallacy of) Accident
Appeal to Ignorance
Syllogism
Unrepresentative Sample
28. After this - therefore on account of this
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Red Herring
(Argument from) Sign
Checking for Sign argument
29. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Appeal to Authority
Simile
Decorum
(Argument from) Testimony
30. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Composition
Division
Prolepsis
Locus of Quality
31. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Arguments
Ambiguity
Unsound
Stasis
32. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Procedural (Stasis)
Argument
Refutation
Composition
33. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Example
False Charge of Fallacy
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
34. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
(Argument of ) General probability
Litotes
Narrative
Checking for Narrative argument
35. 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
Gorgias
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
36. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Refutation Potential
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Checking for Example argument
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
37. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Composition
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Epistrophe
38. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
Ill
Equivocation
Division
39. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Stock Issues
Erotema
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
(Argument of ) General probability
40. Opposite of Hyperbole
Example
Litotes
Red Herring
Hasty Generalization
41. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Presumption
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Tokenism
42. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Tu Quoque
Begging the Question
Personification
Equivocation
43. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Good Moral Character
Intelligence
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
44. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Begging the Question
Tisias
Composition
Claim
45. If A then B B Therefore - A
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Anadiplosis
Anaphora
Ambiguity
46. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Disassociation of Concepts
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Rhetoric
Conceding Arguments
47. The list that builds
Incrementum
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Direct Refutation
Ad Populum
48. Oppostite of Litotes
Valid
Formal Debate
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Hyperbole
49. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
False Charge of Fallacy
Gorgias
Checking for Narrative argument
Status
50. 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
Enthymeme
Situationally flawed
Personification
Ambiguity