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1. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Sound
Sign
Metaphor
Consistency
2. 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'
Ad Hominem
Antithesis
Composition
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
3. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Anaphora
Tu Quoque
Straw Person
Sign
4. 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
Refutation Strategies
Hyperbole
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Appeal to Authority
5. Oppostite of Litotes
Categorical (Syllogism)
Begging the Question
Hyperbole
Status
6. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Unsound
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Agree on Commonality then refute
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
7. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Hasty Generalization
Second (or) Third
False Charge of Fallacy
8. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Enthymeme
Analogy
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
9. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Modus Ponens
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Cure
Presumption
10. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Commonplaces
(Fallacy of) Accident
Epanalepsis
Turn
11. The list that builds
Incrementum
Presumption
Ethos
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
12. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Cost
Tu Quoque
Value Hierarchies
Equivocation
13. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
Tu Quoque
Begging the Question
Antithesis
14. 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?
Plato
Checking for Sign argument
Personification
Aristotle
15. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members
Correctio
Enthymeme
Hasty Generalization
Exergasia
16. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Popular Democracy
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Second
Simile
17. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Anaphora
Rhetoric
18. What vehicles and tenors share
Appeal to Ignorance
Associated Commonplaces
Isocrates
Aristotle
19. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Sign
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Hyperbole
20. Opposite of anadiplosis
Epanalepsis
Anaphora
Exergasia
Incrementum
21. Who developed the argument from general probability?
(Argument of ) General probability
Parallelism
Corax
Second
22. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Non Sequitur
Burden of proof
False Dichotomy
23. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Litotes
Ad Hominem
Anadiplosis
Antithesis
24. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Corax
Blame
Protagoras
Structural (inherency)
25. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Charisma
Composition
Checking for Testimony argument
Toulmin Model
26. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Rhetoric
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Second
Shifting the Burden of Proof
27. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Narrative
Second
Good Will (Ethos)
Rhetoric
28. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Tokenism
Popular Democracy
Ethos
Checking for Sign argument
29. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Prolepsis
Anaphora
Composition
Deductive Reasoning
30. 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
Small Sample
Sign
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Intelligence
31. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
False Charge of Fallacy
Ethos
Epistrophe
False Dichotomy
32. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Parallelism
(Argument from) Sign
Unrepresentative Sample
Epistrophe
33. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Stock Issues
Rhetoric
Tokenism
Archetypal (Metaphor)
34. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Popular Democracy
Hyperbole
Non Sequitur
Conceding Arguments
35. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
False Charge of Fallacy
Anaphora
Grounds (or data)
Quantitative (significance)
36. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Locus of Essence
Litotes
Unrepresentative Sample
37. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Argument
Claim
Tisias
Deductive Reasoning
38. An argument with true premises and valid form
Decorum
Checking for Cause argement
Sound
Anadiplosis
39. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Correctio
Composition
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Second (or) Third
40. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Anaphora
Decorum
Good Will (Ethos)
41. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Aristotle
Composition
Special Topoi
Grounds (or data)
42. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Litotes
Locus of Essence
Isocrates
43. 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?
Special Topoi
Checking for Cause argement
Epanalepsis
Categorical (Syllogism)
44. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Correctio
Litotes
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
45. 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
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Rhetoric
Anadiplosis
46. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Litotes
Unequivocal
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Presumption
47. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Correctio
Locus of Quality
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Appeal to Authority
48. 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:
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Plato
Antithesis
Blame
49. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Refutation Strategies
Parallelism
Sophist
Metaphor
50. 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
Composition
Decision Rules
Formal Logic
Anadiplosis