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1. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Anadiplosis
Ill
First
Composition
2. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Attitudinal (inherency)
Rhetoric
Rhetoric
Anadiplosis
3. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Anadiplosis
Sign
Checking for Example argument
4. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Litotes
Anaphora
Procedural (Stasis)
Categorical (Syllogism)
5. 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'
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
(Argument from) Sign
Protagoras
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
6. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec
Stasis
Hasty Generalization
Sophist
(Argument by) Analogy
7. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Loci of the Preferable
Anadiplosis
Epistrophe
Personification
8. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Prolepsis
Formal Logic
Mixed Metaphor
Rhetoric
9. 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'
Status
Burden of Rejoinder
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
(Argument from) Cause
10. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Modus Tollens
Appeal to Authority
Composition
Stock Issues
11. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Appeal to Authority
Commonplaces
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Qualitative (Stasis)
12. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Exergasia
Blame
Categorical (Syllogism)
Hasty Generalization
13. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Categorical (Syllogism)
Composition
(Argument from) Testimony
Prolepsis
14. Ending repeated
Sign
Epistrophe
Burden of proof
Mixed Metaphor
15. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Cost
Litotes
(Argument from) Narrative
16. 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
Litotes
Narrative
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
17. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Metaphor
Accident
Rhetoric
Charisma
18. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Cost
Division
Qualitative (Stasis)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
19. Opposite of anadiplosis
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Blame
Quantitative (significance)
Epanalepsis
20. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Erotema
Quantitative (significance)
(Special Topoi for) Science
Intelligence
21. Value Hierarchy Visualization
(Argument from) Cause
Term I/Term II
Formal Logic
Euphimism
22. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Cost
Second
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Personification
23. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Plato
Value-Oriented Arguments
Deductive Reasoning
24. 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)
(Fallacy of) Accident
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Ad Hominem
Fallacy Fallacy
25. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Hyperbole
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Testimony
Protagoras
26. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Aristotle
Locus of Essence
Erotema
Sign
27. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
Fallacy Fallacy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument from) Narrative
28. Does one thing really cause the other - or are they merely correlated? Is there another larger cause or series of causes that better explains the effect?
Modus Tollens
Checking for Cause argement
Stock Issues
Locus of Quantity
29. 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
Tokenism
Valid
Loci of the Preferable
Protagoras
30. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Fallacies
Narrative
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Definitional (Stasis)
31. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
(Argument of ) General probability
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Appeal to Ignorance
Epanalepsis
32. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Equivocation
Structural (inherency)
Analogy
Turn
33. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Locus of Essence
Epanalepsis
Small Sample
Grounds (or data)
34. 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?
Ambiguity
Disassociation of Concepts
Parallelism
Checking for Testimony argument
35. The list that builds
Agree on Commonality then refute
Incrementum
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Anadiplosis
36. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Corax
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Tisias
Mercenary Scientists
37. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Formal Debate
Erotema
Division
Non Sequitur
38. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Epanalepsis
Sophist
39. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Personification
False Charge of Fallacy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Refutation Potential
40. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Sign
Erotema
Blame
41. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
(Argument by) Analogy
Locus of Existence
Fallacies
Refutation Potential
42. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Parallelism
Unequivocal
Ad Hominem
Exergasia
43. Exaggeration
Parallelism
Debate Resolutions
Hyperbole
Claim
44. Opposite of Epistrophe
Anadiplosis
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Anaphora
Structural (inherency)
45. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Grounds (or data)
Composition
Gorgias
Plato
46. 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.
Appeal to Authority
Agree on Commonality then refute
Checking for Narrative argument
Decorum
47. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Anadiplosis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Locus of Existence
48. Can the sign be found without the thing for which it stands? Is an alternative explanation of the maning of the sign more credible? Are there countering signs that indicate that his one sign is false?
Categorical (Syllogism)
Checking for Sign argument
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
(Argument from) Sign
49. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Appeal to Authority
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Conceding Arguments
Erotema
50. beginning repeated at ending
Epanalepsis
Unrepresentative Sample
Checking for Testimony argument
Protagoras