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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. 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






2. 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






3. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience






4. An argument with true premises and valid form






5. Opposite of Epistrophe






6. 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






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






8. Good Moral Character






9. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?






10. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






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






16. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'






17. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






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






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






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






21. 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






22. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.






23. A or B Not A Therefore - B






24. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






25. Term with lower (negative) value






26. Opposite of Anaphora






27. 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






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






29. Metaphors use ____ and ____






30. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






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






32. If A then B Not B Therefore not A






33. 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:






34. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?






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






36. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning






37. Term with higher (positive) value






38. 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






39. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.






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






41. The inference moves from specific to general or from general to specific. The warrant to this argument usually reads 'what is true in this case is true in general' or 'what is true in general is true in this case'






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






43. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope






44. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






45. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






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






47. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.






48. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)






49. Beginning repeated






50. Value Hierarchy Visualization