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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Personification
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Example
Agree on Commonality then refute
2. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Debate Resolutions
Unsound
Consistency
3. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Antithesis
Claim
Appeal to Authority
Locus of Quality
4. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Exergasia
Term I/Term II
Situationally flawed
5. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Begging the Question
Appeal to Ignorance
First
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
6. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Agree on Commonality then refute
Enthymeme
Correctio
(Special Topoi for) Science
7. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument from) Sign
Non Sequitur
Modus Tollens
8. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Unsound
Loci of the Preferable
Anadiplosis
Sophist
9. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Rhetoric
Burden of Rejoinder
Syllogism
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
10. 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?
Consistency
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Associated Commonplaces
Checking for Example argument
11. 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?
Checking for Example argument
Mercenary Scientists
Red Herring
Checking for Sign argument
12. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Cost
Metaphor
Conjectural (Stasis)
Antithesis
13. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Term I/Term II
Cliche
Ethos
Erotema
14. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.
Hyperbole
Unrepresentative Sample
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
15. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Good Moral Character
Sophist
Sign
Plato
16. 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
Ill
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Refutation
17. 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'
Appeal to Ignorance
Gorgias
Metaphor
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
18. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'
Modus Tollens
(Argument from) Sign
Stock Issues
Formal Debate
19. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Unequivocal
Mixed Metaphor
Special Topoi
Checking for Narrative argument
20. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
21. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done
Unrepresentative Sample
Conceding Arguments
Simile
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
22. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
(Argument from) Narrative
Burden of proof
Non Sequitur
Popular Democracy
23. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Epistrophe
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Composition
24. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Appeal to Ignorance
Good Will (Ethos)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Analogy
25. If A then B B Therefore - A
Euphimism
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Second (or) Third
Begging the Question
26. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Informal Debate
Mercenary Scientists
Epanalepsis
Plato
27. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
(Fallacy of) Accident
Burden of Rejoinder
Hasty Generalization
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
28. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Stasis
Situationally flawed
Erotema
Locus of Existence
29. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
(Argument by) Analogy
Exergasia
Gorgias
False Dichotomy
30. Term with higher (positive) value
Situationally flawed
Mixed Metaphor
(Argument from) Sign
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
31. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Locus of Existence
Parallelism
Ill
Sign
32. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Questionable Analogy
Tu Quoque
Situationally flawed
Equivocation
33. 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
Locus of Existence
Hasty Generalization
(Fallacy of) Accident
Isocrates
34. Opposite of Hyperbole
Ad Populum
Blame
Litotes
Checking for Example argument
35. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Tokenism
Tisias
Correctio
Non Sequitur
36. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Epistrophe
(Argument by) Example
Analogy
Example
37. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Questionable Cause
Division
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Valid
38. 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
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Rhetoric
Checking for Example argument
(Argument from) Testimony
39. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Agree on Commonality then refute
Division
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
40. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
Arguments
Accident
Conjectural (Stasis)
41. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Checking for Narrative argument
Accident
Correctio
42. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Erotema
Definitional (Stasis)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Corax
43. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Narrative
Categorical (Syllogism)
44. beginning repeated at ending
Epanalepsis
Equivocation
Aristotle
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
45. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Metaphor
Anadiplosis
Argument
Blame
46. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Isocrates
Charisma
First
Questionable Analogy
47. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Ponens
Euphimism
Qualitative (Stasis)
Non Sequitur
48. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Ill
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Sound
Appeal to Authority
49. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
Decorum
Antithesis
Isocrates
Checking for Analogy argument
50. Deliberate correction
Debate Resolutions
Aristotle
Correctio
Anaphora