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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____

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2. Focuses on inadequacies or problems in the status quo - must be significant if a change is to be made. Must Have: 1. Quantitative significance: affects lots of people 2. Qualitative significance: is of bad quality






3. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate






4. Term with lower (negative) value






5. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue






6. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






7. 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'






8. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____






9. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)






10. An argument with true premises and valid form






11. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?






12. Circular Reasoning






13. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument






14. What vehicles and tenors share






15. Who developed the argument from general probability?






16. If A then B Not B Therefore not A






17. 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






18. 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?






19. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses






20. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others






21. Opposite of Hyperbole






22. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument






23. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






24. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue






25. Ideas repeated






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






27. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






28. Value Hierarchy Visualization






29. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?






30. Appeals from the character of the speaker






31. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity






32. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.






33. Deliberate correction






34. Understatement






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.






39. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?






40. 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?






41. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another






42. 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






43. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties






44. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category






45. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






46. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






47. A or B Not A Therefore - B






48. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






49. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity






50. Ask a rhetorical question






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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