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1. An argument with true premises and valid form
Metaphor
Special Topoi
Anadiplosis
Sound
2. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Cliche
Sophist
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Qualitative (Stasis)
3. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
First
(Argument from) Narrative
Popular Democracy
4. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Narrative
Commonplaces
Formal Logic
Ad Populum
5. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Sign
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Refutation
Checking for Cause argement
6. 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
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Hasty Generalization
Sophist
7. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Cure
Epistrophe
Procedural (Stasis)
First
8. Deliberate correction
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Correctio
Conceding Arguments
Hyperbole
9. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members
Burden of proof
Isocrates
Hasty Generalization
Appeal to Ignorance
10. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Rhetoric
Status
Epanalepsis
Corax
11. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
(Argument by) Example
Metaphor
Manufactroversy
Emotionally Charged (Language)
12. Set two things in opposition
Sign
Antithesis
Corax
Anadiplosis
13. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Hyperbole
First
Plato
Cost
14. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Good Will (Ethos)
Simile
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Categorical (Syllogism)
15. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Narrative
False Dichotomy
Refutation
Informal Debate
16. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Appeal to Ignorance
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Parallelism
Division
17. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Second
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Mercenary Scientists
Formal Logic
18. '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?
Questionable Cause
Example
Appeal to Ignorance
Deductive Reasoning
19. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Mixed Metaphor
Appeal to Authority
Burden of Rejoinder
Commonplaces
20. 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?
Good Moral Character
Analogy
Checking for Cause argement
Rhetoric
21. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument of ) General probability
Stasis
Epanalepsis
Epistrophe
22. 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?
Status
Checking for Testimony argument
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Metaphor
23. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Equivocation
Checking for Sign argument
Isocrates
24. 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.
Conjectural (Stasis)
Debate Resolutions
Aristotle
(Argument from) Cause
25. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Presumption
Conceding Arguments
Formal Debate
Begging the Question
26. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Division
Fallacies
Anadiplosis
Mixed Metaphor
27. 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'
Turn
(Argument from) Sign
Ad Hominem
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
28. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Appeal to Authority
Refutation Strategies
Parallelism
Erotema
29. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Anaphora
Anaphora
30. Oppostite of Litotes
Rhetoric
Hyperbole
Anaphora
Attitudinal (inherency)
31. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Stasis
Anadiplosis
Checking for Example argument
Tisias
32. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Checking for Example argument
Litotes
Categorical (Syllogism)
Conceding Arguments
33. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Qualitative (Stasis)
Division
Tokenism
False Dichotomy
34. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Epistrophe
35. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Second (or) Third
Ill
Parallelism
Erotema
36. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Euphimism
Associated Commonplaces
Prolepsis
37. Is necessary to defend the weak against the strong - Is useful and necessary to the state and the individual because you become a more thoughtful citizen and a more well-rounded person - Is useful to have the tools to recognize good arguments and def
Rhetoric
Composition
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Analogy
38. 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
Categorical (Syllogism)
Toulmin Model
Epanalepsis
Unequivocal
39. 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?
Checking for Sign argument
Tu Quoque
Cost
Analogy
40. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Locus of Quality
Sign
Cure
Good Will (Ethos)
41. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Ambiguity
Appeal to Authority
Agree on Commonality then refute
Exergasia
42. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Appeal to Ignorance
Exergasia
Metaphor
Checking for Sign argument
43. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Begging the Question
Appeal to Authority
False Dichotomy
Quantitative (significance)
44. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Exergasia
Burden of proof
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
45. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Grounds (or data)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Tu Quoque
Good Will (Ethos)
46. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Corax
Antithesis
Epistrophe
Plato
47. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Argument
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Division
Gorgias
48. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Argument
Composition
Conjectural (Stasis)
Anaphora
49. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Burden of proof
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Anaphora
Cost
50. After this - therefore on account of this
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Questionable Analogy
Aristotle
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