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Public Debating
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1. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Procedural (Stasis)
Erotema
Anadiplosis
Sophist
2. Reasoning from case to case
Analogy
Tools of Refutation
Checking for Analogy argument
False Dichotomy
3. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Division
Incrementum
Anadiplosis
Appeal to Ignorance
4. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B
Presumption
Categorical (Syllogism)
False Charge of Fallacy
Example
5. Oppostite of Litotes
Hyperbole
Aristotle
Red Herring
Refutation Potential
6. Opposite of anadiplosis
Checking for Testimony argument
Epanalepsis
Metaphor
Composition
7. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Tools of Refutation
Ill
Hasty Generalization
Checking for Analogy argument
8. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Litotes
Epanalepsis
Arguments
Grounds (or data)
9. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Hyperbole
Checking for Example argument
Questionable Cause
Enthymeme
10. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Sophist
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
(Fallacy of) Accident
Checking for Narrative argument
11. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Claim
Example
Non Sequitur
Gorgias
12. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Litotes
Hyperbole
Charisma
Term I/Term II
13. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
First
Deductive Reasoning
Quantitative (significance)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
14. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Modus Tollens
Analogy
Tokenism
Ambiguity
15. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Presumption
Blame
Qualitative (Stasis)
16. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Antithesis
Conceding Arguments
Mercenary Scientists
Direct Refutation
17. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Tokenism
Composition
Stock Issues
Tu Quoque
18. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Burden of Rejoinder
Locus of Essence
Quantitative (significance)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
19. beginning repeated at ending
(Argument by) Example
Disassociation of Concepts
Epanalepsis
Sign
20. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Analogy
Anadiplosis
Value-Oriented Arguments
Stock Issues
21. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument from) Sign
Anadiplosis
(Argument of ) General probability
Turn
22. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Metaphor
Ethos
Stock Issues
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
23. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Hyperbole
Sound
Personification
24. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Begging the Question
Questionable Analogy
(Fallacy of) Accident
Refutation
25. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Composition
Appeal to Ignorance
Ill
26. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true
Red Herring
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Epanalepsis
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
27. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Second
Informal Debate
Anaphora
Aristotle
28. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Division
Corax
Good Will (Ethos)
29. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Antithesis
Ad Populum
Special Topoi
Rhetoric
30. 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?
Euphimism
Checking for Testimony argument
Refutation Potential
Checking for Cause argement
31. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Litotes
Exergasia
Modus Tollens
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
32. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Red Herring
Ill
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Cure
33. Ideas repeated
Term I/Term II
Status
Division
Exergasia
34. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
(Special Topoi for) Science
Sophist
Metaphor
Epistrophe
35. If A then B B Therefore - A
Situationally flawed
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Intelligence
(Argument from) Cause
36. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Litotes
Stasis
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Claim
37. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Composition
Second (or) Third
Non Sequitur
Tools of Refutation
38. Set two things in opposition
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Appeal to Authority
Antithesis
Exergasia
39. Oral performances that have a set format in which two or more speakers take turns making arguments and counterarguments before an audience - Examples: Court room - candidate debates - academic debates
Formal Debate
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Conceding Arguments
Prolepsis
40. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Checking for Sign argument
Term I/Term II
Narrative
Questionable Analogy
41. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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42. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Tokenism
Epanalepsis
Protagoras
43. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Procedural (Stasis)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Presumption
Commonplaces
44. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Locus of Essence
Term I/Term II
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Structural (inherency)
45. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Rhetoric
Example
Ill
Appeal to Authority
46. Exaggeration
Anaphora
Protagoras
Hyperbole
Informal Debate
47. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
False Charge of Fallacy
Litotes
Refutation
Analogy
48. If A then B A Therefore B
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Disassociation of Concepts
Modus Ponens
49. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Good Moral Character
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Appeal to Authority
Anadiplosis
50. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Checking for Cause argement
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Checking for Sign argument
Conjectural (Stasis)
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