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Public Debating
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1. 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:
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Loci of the Preferable
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Blame
2. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Rhetoric
Ill
Narrative
Division
3. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Term I/Term II
Intelligence
Enthymeme
Good Moral Character
4. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Correctio
Litotes
5. Structure repeated
Attitudinal (inherency)
Parallelism
Epistrophe
Division
6. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Appeal to Ignorance
Analogy
Equivocation
Anaphora
7. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Analogy
Second
Hasty Generalization
Modus Tollens
8. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Presumption
Commonplaces
Blame
9. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Questionable Cause
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Hyperbole
Example
10. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
(Special Topoi for) Science
Toulmin Model
(Argument from) Sign
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
11. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Composition
Prolepsis
Arguments
Plato
12. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Testimony
Locus of Essence
Division
Parallelism
13. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Euphimism
Equivocation
Value Hierarchies
Associated Commonplaces
14. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Epanalepsis
Mixed Metaphor
Exergasia
Informal Debate
15. 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
(Argument by) Analogy
Hasty Generalization
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Associated Commonplaces
16. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Tu Quoque
Decorum
Composition
Checking for Analogy argument
17. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Ad Populum
Deductive Reasoning
Status
(Fallacy of) Accident
18. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Quantitative (significance)
Warrant
(Argument from) Sign
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
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
Red Herring
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Manufactroversy
Ethos
20. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Warrant
Locus of Quantity
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Protagoras
21. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Formal Logic
Unrepresentative Sample
Ad Hominem
Prolepsis
22. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Rhetoric
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Appeal to Authority
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
23. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population
Small Sample
Fallacies
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
24. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Decorum
Plato
Mercenary Scientists
Value Hierarchies
25. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Locus of Existence
Checking for Analogy argument
Protagoras
Rhetoric
26. Understatement
Litotes
Accident
Cure
Locus of Quality
27. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Structural (inherency)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
(Argument by) Example
28. 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'
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
(Argument from) Narrative
Valid
Shifting the Burden of Proof
29. If A then B A Therefore B
Definitional (Stasis)
Claim
Intelligence
Modus Ponens
30. 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
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Anadiplosis
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Categorical (Syllogism)
31. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Locus of Existence
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Sophist
Example
32. 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'
Formal Debate
Refutation Strategies
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
(Argument from) Cause
33. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Anadiplosis
Begging the Question
Epanalepsis
34. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Erotema
Burden of Rejoinder
Euphimism
35. 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 -'
Cost
Non Sequitur
Attitudinal (inherency)
Ambiguity
36. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Accident
Composition
Epanalepsis
37. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Structural (inherency)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Mixed Metaphor
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
38. '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?
Stock Issues
Burden of proof
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Example
39. An argument with true premises and valid form
Presumption
Refutation Strategies
Questionable Cause
Sound
40. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Questionable Cause
Debate Resolutions
Commonplaces
41. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Refutation
Attitudinal (inherency)
(Fallacy of) Accident
42. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Composition
Term I/Term II
Antithesis
Conjectural (Stasis)
43. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Exergasia
Categorical (Syllogism)
Accident
44. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Personification
Anadiplosis
Definitional (Stasis)
Non Sequitur
45. Ending repeated
Ad Populum
Epistrophe
Refutation Strategies
Composition
46. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
(Fallacy of) Accident
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Composition
47. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Modus Tollens
Euphimism
(Argument from) Testimony
48. 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?
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Checking for Testimony argument
Value-Oriented Arguments
First
49. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Unsound
Locus of Existence
Sign
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
50. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Mercenary Scientists
Good Moral Character
Hasty Generalization
Conjectural (Stasis)