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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






2. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest






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






4. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






5. beginning repeated at ending






6. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)






7. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)






8. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth






9. 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'






10. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones






11. 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.






12. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)






13. Opposite of Anaphora






14. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






15. Deliberate correction






16. The list that builds






17. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others






18. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C






19. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)






20. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






21. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






22. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?






23. 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?






24. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal






25. Opposite of Epistrophe






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






27. After this - therefore on account of this






28. '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?






29. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place






30. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.






31. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?






32. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'






33. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'






34. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas






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






36. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing






37. Understatement






38. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






39. 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






40. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument






41. Term with higher (positive) value






42. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)






43. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






44. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity






45. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.






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






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






48. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






49. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue






50. 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'