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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
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  • 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. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike






2. 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






3. 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?






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






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






6. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






7. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






8. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






9. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court






10. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry






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






12. 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'






13. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'






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






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






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






17. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?






18. If A then B A Therefore B






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






20. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)






21. If A then B Not A Therefore not B






22. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B






23. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original






24. A or B Not A Therefore - B






25. Who developed the argument from general probability?






26. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?






27. 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.






28. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






29. What vehicles and tenors share






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






31. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost






32. An argument with true premises and valid form






33. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?






34. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.






35. 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'






36. 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.






37. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)






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






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






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






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






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






43. Reasoning from case to case






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






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






46. Value Hierarchy Visualization






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






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






49. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares






50. 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






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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