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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Second (or) Third
Personification
Tu Quoque
Blame
2. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
(Argument by) Example
Sign
Tu Quoque
Second
3. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Quantitative (significance)
Mixed Metaphor
Rhetoric
Erotema
4. The list that builds
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Incrementum
Tu Quoque
Protagoras
5. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Epanalepsis
Argument
Ethos
6. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Aristotle
Antithesis
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
7. An argument with true premises and valid form
Litotes
Sound
Status
Second
8. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Consistency
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Locus of Quality
9. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Burden of proof
Value Hierarchies
Categorical (Syllogism)
Procedural (Stasis)
10. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Erotema
Unsound
Composition
Checking for Analogy argument
11. 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
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Manufactroversy
12. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
(Argument from) Narrative
Value Hierarchies
Toulmin Model
Ethos
13. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Refutation Strategies
Popular Democracy
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
14. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Enthymeme
Direct Refutation
Informal Debate
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
15. Term with lower (negative) value
Arguments
Anaphora
Turn
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
16. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Rhetoric
Valid
17. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Quantitative (significance)
Metaphor
Erotema
Unequivocal
18. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Presumption
Exergasia
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
19. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Decorum
Antithesis
Attitudinal (inherency)
Cure
20. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Term I/Term II
Incrementum
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Rhetoric
21. Set two things in opposition
Tools of Refutation
Value-Oriented Arguments
Antithesis
Categorical (Syllogism)
22. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
23. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Tisias
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Litotes
Litotes
24. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Qualitative (Stasis)
Plato
Procedural (Stasis)
Stock Issues
25. 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
Anaphora
Checking for Testimony argument
Tools of Refutation
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
26. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Checking for Testimony argument
Refutation Strategies
Manufactroversy
Epistrophe
27. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Status
Hasty Generalization
Qualitative (Stasis)
Term I/Term II
28. 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
Procedural (Stasis)
Modus Tollens
Tisias
29. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Composition
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Good Moral Character
Situationally flawed
30. 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
Hasty Generalization
Anaphora
Refutation Potential
31. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.
(Argument from) Narrative
Debate Resolutions
Sign
Antithesis
32. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Locus of Existence
(Argument from) Narrative
Hasty Generalization
Toulmin Model
33. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Good Will (Ethos)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Ethos
34. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Aristotle
Procedural (Stasis)
Good Will (Ethos)
Anadiplosis
35. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Hasty Generalization
Second
Manufactroversy
Protagoras
36. 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'
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Exergasia
(Argument from) Narrative
Ethos
37. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Conceding Arguments
Categorical (Syllogism)
Hyperbole
Ad Populum
38. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Stock Issues
Toulmin Model
Claim
39. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Appeal to Authority
Refutation Strategies
Checking for Cause argement
Epanalepsis
40. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Ad Hominem
Decision Rules
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Ad Populum
41. Ending repeated
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Categorical (Syllogism)
Epistrophe
Special Topoi
42. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Isocrates
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Metaphor
Rhetoric
43. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Anaphora
Sign
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Anadiplosis
44. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Anaphora
Burden of proof
False Dichotomy
Epistrophe
45. 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
Ethos
(Argument by) Analogy
Associated Commonplaces
Common Practice (Fallacy)
46. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Parallelism
Equivocation
Intelligence
Second
47. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Second (or) Third
Tu Quoque
Litotes
Personification
48. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Ad Populum
Hyperbole
Division
Mixed Metaphor
49. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Refutation Strategies
Direct Refutation
Debate Resolutions
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
50. Opposite of Epistrophe
Unsound
Anaphora
Anadiplosis
Simile