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1. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Appeal to Authority
Argument
Questionable Analogy
Agree on Commonality then refute
2. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Ambiguity
(Argument from) Sign
Refutation Strategies
Accident
3. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
(Argument from) Testimony
Simile
Appeal to Ignorance
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
4. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Ill
Equivocation
Second
Modus Ponens
5. 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
Questionable Cause
Fallacies
Anadiplosis
Manufactroversy
6. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Grounds (or data)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Small Sample
Modus Tollens
7. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Ad Populum
Good Moral Character
Non Sequitur
8. Exaggeration
Antithesis
Associated Commonplaces
Hyperbole
Straw Person
9. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
Non Sequitur
Checking for Analogy argument
Decision Rules
Questionable Analogy
10. Deliberate correction
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Locus of Existence
Decision Rules
Correctio
11. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Claim
Situationally flawed
Categorical (Syllogism)
Deductive Reasoning
12. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Division
Rhetoric
Qualitative (Stasis)
13. 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'
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Refutation Strategies
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Decision Rules
14. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
Parallelism
Burden of proof
15. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Cliche
Checking for Example argument
Special Topoi
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
16. 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
Exergasia
Decision Rules
Checking for Cause argement
Appeal to Authority
17. '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?
Example
Hasty Generalization
Checking for Narrative argument
Tu Quoque
18. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Begging the Question
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Analogy
Epanalepsis
19. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Quantitative (significance)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Litotes
Checking for Sign argument
20. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Tokenism
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Epanalepsis
21. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Non Sequitur
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Tu Quoque
Categorical (Syllogism)
22. 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
Quantitative (significance)
Blame
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Burden of Rejoinder
23. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Sign
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
24. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
(Fallacy of) Accident
Tokenism
Decision Rules
25. 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
Sophist
Value Hierarchies
Ad Populum
26. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Definitional (Stasis)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Second (or) Third
Appeal to Authority
27. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Argument
Fallacies
Gorgias
Enthymeme
28. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Metaphor
Structural (inherency)
Composition
Non Sequitur
29. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
(Argument from) Narrative
Shifting the Burden of Proof
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
30. 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
(Special Topoi for) Science
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Epistrophe
31. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Sign
Conjectural (Stasis)
Direct Refutation
Ad Hominem
32. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Straw Person
Good Will (Ethos)
Procedural (Stasis)
Ambiguity
33. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Quantitative (significance)
Sign
Definitional (Stasis)
Aristotle
34. 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 -'
Corax
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Non Sequitur
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
35. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Blame
Non Sequitur
Epanalepsis
Questionable Cause
36. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Narrative
Non Sequitur
Corax
Emotionally Charged (Language)
37. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Unequivocal
Small Sample
Anadiplosis
Good Will (Ethos)
38. 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
Good Will (Ethos)
Gorgias
Cost
(Argument by) Analogy
39. Opposite of Epistrophe
Analogy
Checking for Cause argement
Anaphora
(Special Topoi for) Science
40. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Composition
Formal Debate
Agree on Commonality then refute
41. Set two things in opposition
Unequivocal
Antithesis
Equivocation
Example
42. 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
(Argument from) Sign
Enthymeme
Small Sample
Emotionally Charged (Language)
43. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Direct Refutation
Commonplaces
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Erotema
44. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Euphimism
Equivocation
Conjectural (Stasis)
45. Oppostite of Litotes
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Parallelism
Hyperbole
46. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Appeal to Ignorance
Division
Ethos
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
47. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Metaphor
Litotes
Checking for Sign argument
(Argument from) Narrative
48. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Stock Issues
Locus of Existence
False Dichotomy
Informal Debate
49. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Mixed Metaphor
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
(Argument from) Cause
Blame
50. If A then B A Therefore B
Sophist
Euphimism
Modus Ponens
Locus of Existence
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