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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Ill
Stasis
Direct Refutation
2. Term with lower (negative) value
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Cure
Tools of Refutation
Metaphor
3. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Protagoras
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Epanalepsis
Blame
4. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Burden of proof
Good Moral Character
Sophist
Parallelism
5. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Good Will (Ethos)
Ill
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Exergasia
6. 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
Sophist
Refutation Strategies
Rhetoric
Loci of the Preferable
7. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Argument by) Analogy
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
(Special Topoi for) Science
Tokenism
8. 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
Enthymeme
Tools of Refutation
Disassociation of Concepts
Simile
9. Circular Reasoning
Begging the Question
Litotes
Epanalepsis
Ad Hominem
10. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
(Argument by) Example
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Mercenary Scientists
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
11. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Good Will (Ethos)
Second
Anaphora
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
12. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Definitional (Stasis)
Litotes
Personification
Non Sequitur
13. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Checking for Example argument
Narrative
Metaphor
Metaphor
14. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Consistency
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Charisma
15. 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
Special Topoi
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Formal Debate
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
16. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Argument
Value Hierarchies
Composition
Questionable Cause
17. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Composition
Special Topoi
Informal Debate
Exergasia
18. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
Composition
Refutation Strategies
Anaphora
19. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Stock Issues
Special Topoi
Anadiplosis
(Argument from) Cause
20. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Non Sequitur
Deductive Reasoning
Intelligence
(Argument from) Narrative
21. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Anaphora
Procedural (Stasis)
Enthymeme
Charisma
22. 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'
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Appeal to Ignorance
Checking for Sign argument
(Argument from) Narrative
23. Understatement
Epistrophe
Litotes
Small Sample
Categorical (Syllogism)
24. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Hasty Generalization
Antithesis
Locus of Essence
Sound
25. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.
Checking for Sign argument
Unrepresentative Sample
Checking for Cause argement
Anaphora
26. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Good Will (Ethos)
Refutation Potential
Cost
Attitudinal (inherency)
27. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Modus Tollens
Checking for Analogy argument
Tu Quoque
Appeal to Authority
28. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Cliche
(Argument by) Analogy
Division
Epistrophe
29. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Antithesis
(Argument of ) General probability
Equivocation
30. 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
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
(Special Topoi for) Science
Mercenary Scientists
31. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Checking for Cause argement
Qualitative (Stasis)
Definitional (Stasis)
Division
32. An argument that follows proper logical form
Appeal to Authority
Incrementum
Composition
Valid
33. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Agree on Commonality then refute
Unequivocal
Correctio
Formal Logic
34. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Locus of Existence
Litotes
Tu Quoque
Second
35. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Appeal to Ignorance
Erotema
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Checking for Cause argement
36. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Small Sample
Corax
Anaphora
Sophist
37. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Attitudinal (inherency)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Testimony
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
38. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Aristotle
39. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Warrant
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Metaphor
Equivocation
40. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Disassociation of Concepts
Composition
Locus of Existence
41. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Enthymeme
Hasty Generalization
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Litotes
42. An argument with true premises and valid form
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
First
Sound
Correctio
43. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Epistrophe
Second
Non Sequitur
Anadiplosis
44. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Unsound
Popular Democracy
Incrementum
Begging the Question
45. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Associated Commonplaces
Questionable Cause
Charisma
False Charge of Fallacy
46. 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?
Example
Checking for Sign argument
Anaphora
Good Moral Character
47. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Burden of Rejoinder
Refutation
Cliche
Modus Ponens
48. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Categorical (Syllogism)
Protagoras
Quantitative (significance)
Incrementum
49. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Fallacies
Cost
Parallelism
Erotema
50. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
False Dichotomy
Structural (inherency)
Formal Logic
Hasty Generalization