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Subject : soft-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)






3. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?






4. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C






5. 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'






6. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






7. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C






8. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






9. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'






10. After this - therefore on account of this






11. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts






12. 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?






13. Metaphors use ____ and ____






14. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'






15. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'






16. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done






17. 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?






18. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?






19. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)






20. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






21. Ideas repeated






22. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings






23. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.






24. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)






25. Who developed the argument from general probability?






26. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.






27. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?






28. 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






29. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






30. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?






31. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.






32. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






33. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






34. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population






35. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.






36. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument






37. Reasoning from case to case






38. 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






39. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.






40. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another






41. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')






42. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives






43. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






44. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides






45. Opposite of anadiplosis






46. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.






47. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






48. 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'






49. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing






50. Opposite of Epanalepsis







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