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1. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Burden of proof
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Epistrophe
2. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Fallacy Fallacy
Valid
Cost
3. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Erotema
Direct Refutation
False Dichotomy
Aristotle
4. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Enthymeme
(Argument from) Cause
Tu Quoque
Loci of the Preferable
5. 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'
(Argument from) Cause
Begging the Question
Qualitative (Stasis)
Unsound
6. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Claim
Refutation
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Testimony
7. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Quantitative (significance)
Conceding Arguments
Claim
Parallelism
8. Opposite of Epistrophe
Correctio
Anaphora
Refutation Strategies
Sophist
9. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Arguments
Fallacy Fallacy
Aristotle
Vehicle (and) Tenor
10. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Checking for Narrative argument
Anadiplosis
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Claim
11. 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
Conjectural (Stasis)
Stasis
Exergasia
12. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Hyperbole
Popular Democracy
Intelligence
Direct Refutation
13. Circular Reasoning
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Begging the Question
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Value-Oriented Arguments
14. Reasoning from case to case
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Anadiplosis
Analogy
Archetypal (Metaphor)
15. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Locus of Quantity
Conjectural (Stasis)
Rhetoric
Vehicle (and) Tenor
16. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Litotes
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Rhetoric
Vehicle (and) Tenor
17. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Anaphora
Locus of Essence
Appeal to Authority
Conceding Arguments
18. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Aristotle
Non Sequitur
Cure
Analogy
19. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Questionable Cause
Antithesis
(Argument of ) General probability
Hyperbole
20. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Correctio
Debate Resolutions
Toulmin Model
Parallelism
21. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Unsound
Litotes
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
22. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Good Will (Ethos)
Formal Logic
Locus of Essence
Quantitative (significance)
23. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Argument
Decorum
24. 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'
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Red Herring
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Debate Resolutions
25. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Cure
Checking for Example argument
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
26. If A then B A Therefore B
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Intelligence
Modus Ponens
Value Hierarchies
27. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:
Blame
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Turn
Checking for Testimony argument
28. Opposite of anadiplosis
Correctio
Blame
Epanalepsis
Commonplaces
29. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Locus of Existence
Equivocation
Rhetoric
Refutation Potential
30. 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
Narrative
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Toulmin Model
Formal Debate
31. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Valid
Checking for Narrative argument
Argument
32. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Locus of Quality
First
Isocrates
Straw Person
33. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Anadiplosis
Consistency
Appeal to Authority
Euphimism
34. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Categorical (Syllogism)
Syllogism
Popular Democracy
Sign
35. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Arguments
Epistrophe
Charisma
Checking for Narrative argument
36. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Appeal to Authority
Small Sample
Situationally flawed
Epistrophe
37. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
Cliche
(Argument from) Cause
Shifting the Burden of Proof
38. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Ad Populum
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Epistrophe
Litotes
39. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Mercenary Scientists
Parallelism
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
40. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Epistrophe
Tu Quoque
Appeal to Authority
Litotes
41. 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.
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Tu Quoque
Decision Rules
Debate Resolutions
42. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
Anadiplosis
Agree on Commonality then refute
(Argument by) Analogy
43. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Conceding Arguments
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Hyperbole
Begging the Question
44. 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.
Appeal to Authority
Tisias
Plato
Unequivocal
45. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Unrepresentative Sample
Begging the Question
Tools of Refutation
Manufactroversy
46. 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
Informal Debate
Antithesis
Tokenism
Decision Rules
47. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Antithesis
Checking for Cause argement
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Hasty Generalization
48. Beginning repeated
Term I/Term II
Euphimism
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Anaphora
49. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Rhetoric
Popular Democracy
False Charge of Fallacy
Valid
50. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
(Argument by) Example
Anaphora
Stasis
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