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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
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1. 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






2. 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.






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






4. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?






5. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






6. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____






7. Opposite of Epanalepsis






8. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike






9. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






10. 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?






11. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category






12. Opposite of anadiplosis






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






19. Good Moral Character






20. 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.






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






22. Appeals from the character of the speaker






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






24. Exaggeration






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






26. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)






27. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.






28. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






29. If A then B Not B Therefore not A






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






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






32. The inference reasons that what a trustworthy source says is true. The warrant to this argument usually says - 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true'






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






34. Who developed the argument from general probability?






35. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins






36. Term with higher (positive) value






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






38. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo






39. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.






40. 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.






41. 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'






42. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.






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






44. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






45. Ideas repeated






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






47. Term with lower (negative) value






48. A manufactured controversy that is motivated by profit or extreme ideology to intentionally create confusion in the public about an issue of scientific fact that is not in dispute by the scientific community. Used to stop debate at the conjectural le






49. Ending repeated






50. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members






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