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Public Debating
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1. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Value-Oriented Arguments
Unequivocal
Parallelism
Procedural (Stasis)
2. If A then B B Therefore - A
Definitional (Stasis)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Disassociation of Concepts
Qualitative (Stasis)
3. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
(Argument by) Analogy
Debate Resolutions
Division
Tokenism
4. Understatement
Appeal to Ignorance
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Litotes
5. Structure repeated
Parallelism
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Checking for Testimony argument
Qualitative (Stasis)
6. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Unequivocal
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Gorgias
Personification
7. 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'
Epanalepsis
Claim
Ad Hominem
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
8. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Fallacy Fallacy
Grounds (or data)
Commonplaces
Checking for Analogy argument
9. 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 -'
Non Sequitur
Refutation
Refutation Potential
Loci of the Preferable
10. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Conjectural (Stasis)
Conceding Arguments
Stock Issues
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
11. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
(Argument of ) General probability
Appeal to Ignorance
Warrant
Metaphor
12. 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
Tools of Refutation
Enthymeme
Fallacy Fallacy
Anadiplosis
13. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Epanalepsis
Burden of proof
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Cure
14. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Questionable Analogy
Composition
Term I/Term II
Attitudinal (inherency)
15. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Ill
Special Topoi
Anadiplosis
Exergasia
16. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Cure
Modus Tollens
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Litotes
17. Term with lower (negative) value
Antithesis
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Ambiguity
Unrepresentative Sample
18. 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)
Structural (inherency)
Ill
Value-Oriented Arguments
19. '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?
Popular Democracy
Example
Situationally flawed
Manufactroversy
20. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Tu Quoque
Tokenism
Epanalepsis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
21. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Tokenism
Rhetoric
Unrepresentative Sample
Direct Refutation
22. The list that builds
Warrant
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Questionable Analogy
Incrementum
23. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Appeal to Ignorance
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Formal Debate
Tu Quoque
24. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Turn
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Blame
Sophist
25. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Checking for Analogy argument
Tokenism
Exergasia
26. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Begging the Question
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
27. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Parallelism
Toulmin Model
Blame
Anadiplosis
28. 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
Decision Rules
Special Topoi
Prolepsis
False Dichotomy
29. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Anadiplosis
(Fallacy of) Accident
Second
Cost
30. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Good Moral Character
Anaphora
Refutation Potential
Corax
31. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Unsound
Refutation Strategies
Epanalepsis
(Argument from) Narrative
32. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Locus of Quantity
Second (or) Third
(Argument from) Cause
Mixed Metaphor
33. Opposite of anadiplosis
Epanalepsis
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Stock Issues
34. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Formal Logic
Sophist
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
35. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Debate Resolutions
Formal Logic
Parallelism
Rhetoric
36. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Appeal to Authority
(Fallacy of) Accident
Anaphora
Parallelism
37. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Special Topoi
Tokenism
Metaphor
Shifting the Burden of Proof
38. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Decorum
Checking for Sign argument
Enthymeme
Syllogism
39. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
(Argument from) Narrative
Appeal to Authority
Term I/Term II
Locus of Quantity
40. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Term I/Term II
Direct Refutation
Correctio
Parallelism
41. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Checking for Cause argement
Refutation Potential
Simile
Checking for Example argument
42. 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
Red Herring
Mercenary Scientists
Blame
(Argument from) Sign
43. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Arguments
Burden of Rejoinder
Loci of the Preferable
44. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Narrative
Fallacies
Composition
False Dichotomy
45. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
(Argument from) Testimony
Litotes
Value-Oriented Arguments
46. 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
Prolepsis
Small Sample
Attitudinal (inherency)
Hyperbole
47. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Ad Populum
Appeal to Authority
Commonplaces
Consistency
48. 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'
(Argument from) Cause
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Burden of proof
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
49. 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'
False Dichotomy
Correctio
(Argument from) Narrative
Stock Issues
50. 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'
Aristotle
(Argument by) Example
Qualitative (Stasis)
Hasty Generalization