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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
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1. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






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






3. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.






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






5. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






6. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost






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






8. Ask a rhetorical question






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






10. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?






11. Reasoning from case to case






12. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides






13. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)






14. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success






15. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)






16. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






17. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members






18. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'






19. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible






20. Appeals from the character of the speaker






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






22. Value Hierarchy Visualization






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






24. 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






25. 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.






26. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?






27. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






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






29. Term with higher (positive) value






30. 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.






31. 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?






32. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C






33. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth






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






35. Opposite of Epistrophe






36. 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






37. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






38. Structure repeated






39. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts






40. Opposite of Hyperbole






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






42. Oppostite of Litotes






43. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)






44. 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.






45. 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?






46. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?






47. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.






48. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____

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






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