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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts






2. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'






3. Value Hierarchy Visualization






4. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C






5. 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






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






7. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Term with lower (negative) value






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






15. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?






16. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)






17. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?






18. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole






19. 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






20. 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'






21. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






22. Who developed the argument from general probability?






23. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?






24. 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






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






26. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.






27. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous






28. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.






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






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






31. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed






32. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')






33. 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'






34. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






35. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






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






37. Good Moral Character






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






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






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






41. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.






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






43. 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?






44. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument






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






46. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.






47. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






48. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






49. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






50. An argument with true premises and valid form