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1. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Simile
Cliche
Consistency
Status
2. 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
Manufactroversy
Mixed Metaphor
Formal Debate
Tools of Refutation
3. 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.
Arguments
Exergasia
Unrepresentative Sample
Fallacy Fallacy
4. If A then B B Therefore - A
Ad Hominem
Refutation Potential
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Decision Rules
5. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Checking for Analogy argument
Structural (inherency)
Enthymeme
Unrepresentative Sample
6. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Arguments
Epistrophe
(Special Topoi for) Science
7. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Unrepresentative Sample
Fallacy Fallacy
Special Topoi
Refutation Potential
8. 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
Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
Rhetoric
Burden of proof
9. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Ambiguity
Stock Issues
Locus of Quantity
Hasty Generalization
10. 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.
Disassociation of Concepts
Locus of Quantity
Toulmin Model
Tu Quoque
11. The inference reasons that what a trustworthy source says is true. The warrant to this argument usually says - 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true'
(Argument from) Testimony
Questionable Cause
Checking for Testimony argument
Personification
12. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Sophist
Division
Equivocation
Euphimism
13. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Locus of Essence
Manufactroversy
(Argument from) Sign
Archetypal (Metaphor)
14. 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'
Parallelism
Epanalepsis
Ill
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
15. What vehicles and tenors share
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Associated Commonplaces
Conceding Arguments
Rhetoric
16. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
Sign
Anadiplosis
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
17. An argument that follows proper logical form
Toulmin Model
Valid
Anadiplosis
Hyperbole
18. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Anadiplosis
Prolepsis
Anadiplosis
19. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Blame
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Formal Logic
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
20. 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'
Anaphora
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
(Argument by) Example
Analogy
21. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Protagoras
Plato
Parallelism
Personification
22. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Division
Rhetoric
Corax
Metaphor
23. Beginning repeated
Decorum
Anaphora
Good Will (Ethos)
Aristotle
24. Understatement
Checking for Narrative argument
False Charge of Fallacy
Commonplaces
Litotes
25. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Checking for Testimony argument
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Anadiplosis
Agree on Commonality then refute
26. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
False Dichotomy
Claim
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Turn
27. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Sign
Metaphor
Warrant
Valid
28. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Hyperbole
Locus of Existence
Plato
Value Hierarchies
29. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Incrementum
Tu Quoque
Warrant
30. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Ill
Good Will (Ethos)
Good Moral Character
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
31. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Anaphora
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Tu Quoque
32. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Burden of proof
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Structural (inherency)
33. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Deductive Reasoning
Tu Quoque
Cost
Metaphor
34. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Sound
Incrementum
Non Sequitur
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
35. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Equivocation
Checking for Narrative argument
Agree on Commonality then refute
Locus of Quantity
36. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Value Hierarchies
(Argument from) Cause
Categorical (Syllogism)
Stock Issues
37. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Accident
Locus of Quantity
Charisma
Grounds (or data)
38. Deliberate correction
Unsound
Begging the Question
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Correctio
39. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Personification
Locus of Existence
Division
Stasis
40. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Intelligence
Parallelism
Refutation Potential
Manufactroversy
41. 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
Cure
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Ill
Definitional (Stasis)
42. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Ad Hominem
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Equivocation
43. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Manufactroversy
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Begging the Question
44. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Questionable Cause
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Good Will (Ethos)
Associated Commonplaces
45. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Presumption
Begging the Question
Prolepsis
46. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Epistrophe
(Argument from) Narrative
Begging the Question
Stasis
47. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Enthymeme
Appeal to Authority
Presumption
Composition
48. 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'
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Red Herring
(Argument from) Sign
Procedural (Stasis)
49. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Personification
Narrative
Appeal to Ignorance
50. 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?
Sign
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Correctio
Checking for Testimony argument
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