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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Situationally flawed
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Locus of Quantity
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
2. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Division
Testimony
Litotes
3. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Second
Epanalepsis
Hasty Generalization
Analogy
4. Term with lower (negative) value
Cure
Deductive Reasoning
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Agree on Commonality then refute
5. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Arguments
Loci of the Preferable
Appeal to Ignorance
Metaphor
6. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Metaphor
Value-Oriented Arguments
Tisias
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
7. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'
Composition
Ad Hominem
Burden of Rejoinder
Composition
8. Opposite of Hyperbole
(Argument of ) General probability
Litotes
Epanalepsis
Non Sequitur
9. Oppostite of Litotes
Hyperbole
Categorical (Syllogism)
Quantitative (significance)
Refutation Potential
10. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Second
Cost
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
11. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Cure
Epanalepsis
Non Sequitur
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
12. Understatement
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Blame
Litotes
Fallacies
13. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Unsound
Cliche
Hyperbole
Anaphora
14. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Burden of Rejoinder
Fallacy Fallacy
Erotema
Cost
15. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Tisias
Correctio
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Analogy
16. Structure repeated
Parallelism
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Definitional (Stasis)
Hyperbole
17. The list that builds
Incrementum
Checking for Cause argement
Disassociation of Concepts
Syllogism
18. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Cost
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Ethos
19. 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?
Checking for Cause argement
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Conjectural (Stasis)
20. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Metaphor
Archetypal (Metaphor)
21. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Unsound
Refutation Strategies
Composition
False Charge of Fallacy
22. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Rhetoric
Epanalepsis
(Special Topoi for) Science
Ad Populum
23. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Euphimism
Ill
Exergasia
Prolepsis
24. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Metaphor
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Tools of Refutation
Anadiplosis
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
Conceding Arguments
Tools of Refutation
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Narrative
26. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Rhetoric
Stasis
False Dichotomy
Deductive Reasoning
27. 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?
Checking for Analogy argument
Anaphora
Accident
Checking for Testimony argument
28. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Checking for Cause argement
Checking for Narrative argument
Turn
Ad Populum
29. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Procedural (Stasis)
Popular Democracy
Personification
Anadiplosis
30. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Rhetoric
Straw Person
Decision Rules
31. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Appeal to Ignorance
Direct Refutation
Unrepresentative Sample
Analogy
32. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Disassociation of Concepts
Enthymeme
Euphimism
Correctio
33. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Appeal to Ignorance
Plato
Straw Person
Qualitative (Stasis)
34. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
(Fallacy of) Accident
Equivocation
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Cure
35. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Metaphor
Analogy
Division
Tu Quoque
36. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Litotes
Ill
Popular Democracy
37. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Unsound
Exergasia
38. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Categorical (Syllogism)
Hasty Generalization
Questionable Analogy
Second (or) Third
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
(Fallacy of) Accident
Formal Debate
Erotema
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
40. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Sign
(Argument from) Sign
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
41. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:
Mixed Metaphor
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Litotes
Blame
42. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Checking for Sign argument
Correctio
Procedural (Stasis)
Analogy
43. Term with higher (positive) value
Testimony
Debate Resolutions
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Plato
44. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Sophist
Fallacies
Deductive Reasoning
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
45. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.
Modus Tollens
Straw Person
Rhetoric
Commonplaces
46. 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?
Checking for Testimony argument
Ill
Disassociation of Concepts
Toulmin Model
47. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Deductive Reasoning
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Corax
Decision Rules
48. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Isocrates
Second
Refutation Potential
Aristotle
49. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Tokenism
Narrative
Exergasia
50. 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.
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Unrepresentative Sample
Term I (Disassociation Pair)