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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Unequivocal
Checking for Example argument
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
2. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
Non Sequitur
Exergasia
Rhetoric
3. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Value-Oriented Arguments
Erotema
Claim
Qualitative (Stasis)
4. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Appeal to Authority
Composition
Refutation
5. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Epanalepsis
Categorical (Syllogism)
Value-Oriented Arguments
6. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Hyperbole
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
(Argument from) Narrative
Fallacy Fallacy
7. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Associated Commonplaces
Epanalepsis
Ambiguity
Parallelism
8. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Toulmin Model
(Argument from) Sign
Epanalepsis
Grounds (or data)
9. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Questionable Cause
Appeal to Ignorance
Presumption
Blame
10. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Begging the Question
Litotes
Mercenary Scientists
Commonplaces
11. Opposite of anadiplosis
First
Division
Epanalepsis
Ethos
12. 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
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Checking for Narrative argument
Tisias
Direct Refutation
13. 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
Claim
Agree on Commonality then refute
Testimony
Ill
14. Ask a rhetorical question
Tu Quoque
Antithesis
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Erotema
15. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Sign
16. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Litotes
Conceding Arguments
17. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Epistrophe
Decision Rules
Red Herring
18. 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
Loci of the Preferable
Hyperbole
Correctio
Mixed Metaphor
19. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Corax
Tu Quoque
Erotema
Appeal to Authority
20. 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'
Narrative
Cost
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Decision Rules
21. 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'
(Argument from) Narrative
Hyperbole
Term I/Term II
Vehicle (and) Tenor
22. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Toulmin Model
Hyperbole
Appeal to Authority
Locus of Essence
23. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Composition
Checking for Sign argument
Tisias
Metaphor
24. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
(Argument from) Cause
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Tools of Refutation
Mixed Metaphor
25. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Division
Rhetoric
Tokenism
Term I/Term II
26. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Hyperbole
Gorgias
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
False Charge of Fallacy
27. 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'
Presumption
Refutation Strategies
Tu Quoque
Tokenism
28. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Example
Isocrates
Rhetoric
29. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
First
Blame
Epistrophe
30. Opposite of Hyperbole
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Enthymeme
Litotes
31. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Intelligence
(Argument from) Cause
Tu Quoque
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
32. Opposite of Epistrophe
Ambiguity
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Anaphora
Non Sequitur
33. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Ethos
Presumption
Rhetoric
Conjectural (Stasis)
34. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
First
Unrepresentative Sample
Incrementum
35. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Sound
Value Hierarchies
Prolepsis
Division
36. 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
Appeal to Ignorance
Grounds (or data)
Appeal to Authority
Decision Rules
37. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Mixed Metaphor
Anaphora
Non Sequitur
38. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Qualitative (Stasis)
False Dichotomy
Antithesis
Small Sample
39. 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?
Refutation Strategies
Checking for Testimony argument
Personification
(Argument from) Narrative
40. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
Hyperbole
Composition
Valid
41. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Anaphora
Metaphor
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
42. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Refutation Strategies
Hyperbole
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Stock Issues
43. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Grounds (or data)
Popular Democracy
Tisias
44. 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
Agree on Commonality then refute
Second (or) Third
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Rhetoric
45. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument of ) General probability
Locus of Quantity
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
46. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Antithesis
Fallacies
47. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Epistrophe
Associated Commonplaces
Intelligence
48. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Stock Issues
Refutation Strategies
Special Topoi
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
49. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Locus of Essence
Prolepsis
Erotema
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
50. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Sign
Simile
Locus of Existence
Locus of Essence