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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Metaphor
Ill
(Argument by) Analogy
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
2. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Locus of Quantity
Non Sequitur
Aristotle
3. 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?
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Ill
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Checking for Cause argement
4. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
(Argument from) Narrative
Personification
(Argument by) Analogy
Categorical (Syllogism)
5. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Stock Issues
Aristotle
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Modus Tollens
6. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Consistency
Common Practice (Fallacy)
(Special Topoi for) Science
Procedural (Stasis)
7. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Shifting the Burden of Proof
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Questionable Cause
Exergasia
8. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Erotema
Sign
Claim
Epistrophe
9. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Ill
Equivocation
Accident
Qualitative (Stasis)
10. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Cliche
Arguments
Rhetoric
11. 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
Epanalepsis
Metaphor
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
12. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Division
Refutation
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
13. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Rhetoric
Intelligence
Rhetoric
Euphimism
14. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Cure
Rhetoric
Consistency
Tu Quoque
15. A or B Not A Therefore - B
(Argument from) Testimony
Locus of Existence
Tools of Refutation
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
16. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Sign
Accident
Analogy
17. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
(Argument from) Cause
Erotema
Qualitative (Stasis)
Cliche
18. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Antithesis
Tokenism
Arguments
19. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Anadiplosis
Mixed Metaphor
Stasis
Analogy
20. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Appeal to Authority
Tu Quoque
Modus Tollens
21. Reasoning from case to case
Erotema
Term I/Term II
(Argument from) Testimony
Analogy
22. Term with higher (positive) value
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Correctio
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Epistrophe
23. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Good Moral Character
Red Herring
Analogy
Litotes
24. 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?
Anadiplosis
Argument
Checking for Example argument
Anaphora
25. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Ad Populum
Special Topoi
Locus of Existence
Ethos
26. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
False Charge of Fallacy
Warrant
Attitudinal (inherency)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
27. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Direct Refutation
(Argument from) Sign
Epanalepsis
(Argument from) Narrative
28. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Informal Debate
Deductive Reasoning
Antithesis
Sound
29. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Cost
Structural (inherency)
Composition
Rhetoric
30. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Refutation Potential
Metaphor
Erotema
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
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.
Debate Resolutions
Exergasia
Fallacies
Decision Rules
32. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
Protagoras
Sound
Analogy
33. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Metaphor
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Special Topoi
Simile
34. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Sophist
Stock Issues
Equivocation
Epistrophe
35. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Appeal to Authority
Begging the Question
Mercenary Scientists
Epistrophe
36. Beginning repeated
Anaphora
Accident
(Fallacy of) Accident
Antithesis
37. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Plato
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Checking for Cause argement
38. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Situationally flawed
Hasty Generalization
Second
Fallacies
39. Oppostite of Litotes
Metaphor
Hyperbole
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Anadiplosis
40. Set two things in opposition
Narrative
Erotema
Parallelism
Antithesis
41. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Fallacy Fallacy
Hyperbole
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Rhetoric
42. 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
Procedural (Stasis)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Division
Tools of Refutation
43. Focuses on inadequacies or problems in the status quo - must be significant if a change is to be made. Must Have: 1. Quantitative significance: affects lots of people 2. Qualitative significance: is of bad quality
Epanalepsis
Ill
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Aristotle
44. If A then B B Therefore - A
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
(Argument from) Testimony
45. 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
Conjectural (Stasis)
Consistency
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
46. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Syllogism
Tisias
Decorum
Incrementum
47. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Modus Tollens
Tokenism
Decision Rules
Ambiguity
48. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Ponens
Antithesis
Rhetoric
Cliche
49. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Procedural (Stasis)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Term I/Term II
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
50. '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?
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Syllogism
Example
Anadiplosis