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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Cost
Accident
Ill
Decision Rules
2. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Decorum
Refutation Strategies
(Argument from) Cause
3. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
(Argument of ) General probability
Anadiplosis
Categorical (Syllogism)
Conjectural (Stasis)
4. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Straw Person
Red Herring
5. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Burden of Rejoinder
Good Will (Ethos)
Locus of Existence
Shifting the Burden of Proof
6. Opposite of Hyperbole
Formal Debate
Sign
Litotes
Shifting the Burden of Proof
7. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Value Hierarchies
Term I/Term II
Mercenary Scientists
Checking for Analogy argument
8. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Begging the Question
Narrative
First
9. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Division
Toulmin Model
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
10. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Exergasia
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Charisma
11. 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
Unrepresentative Sample
Special Topoi
Loci of the Preferable
Parallelism
12. After this - therefore on account of this
Popular Democracy
Straw Person
Mercenary Scientists
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
13. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Second (or) Third
14. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument of ) General probability
Prolepsis
Consistency
Analogy
15. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Rhetoric
Tisias
Litotes
Personification
16. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Blame
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Equivocation
Mercenary Scientists
17. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Locus of Quantity
Epanalepsis
Archetypal (Metaphor)
18. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Warrant
Small Sample
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Consistency
19. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Non Sequitur
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
20. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Parallelism
(Argument from) Cause
Informal Debate
Consistency
21. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Corax
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Hasty Generalization
False Dichotomy
22. beginning repeated at ending
Enthymeme
Agree on Commonality then refute
First
Epanalepsis
23. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Prolepsis
Sophist
Questionable Analogy
Incrementum
24. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Second
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Protagoras
Fallacies
25. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Hasty Generalization
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Charisma
Syllogism
26. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Manufactroversy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Isocrates
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
27. 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
Red Herring
Equivocation
Agree on Commonality then refute
Litotes
28. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Example
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Incrementum
Sign
29. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Term I/Term II
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Checking for Narrative argument
Refutation Potential
30. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument from) Cause
Tokenism
31. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Decorum
(Argument from) Cause
Tisias
Litotes
32. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Debate Resolutions
Hyperbole
Value-Oriented Arguments
Litotes
33. Exaggeration
Decorum
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Hyperbole
34. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Arguments
Tu Quoque
Parallelism
Tu Quoque
35. 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'
Hyperbole
(Argument from) Sign
Litotes
Definitional (Stasis)
36. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Checking for Example argument
Grounds (or data)
Syllogism
Fallacies
37. 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
Quantitative (significance)
Loci of the Preferable
Epanalepsis
38. Structure repeated
Conjectural (Stasis)
Corax
Parallelism
First
39. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Ambiguity
Syllogism
Direct Refutation
Example
40. 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
Erotema
Formal Debate
Non Sequitur
(Argument from) Narrative
41. 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
Intelligence
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Categorical (Syllogism)
Begging the Question
42. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Composition
Arguments
Burden of Rejoinder
First
43. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Protagoras
Presumption
Refutation
Testimony
44. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Unequivocal
(Special Topoi for) Science
Analogy
45. Ideas repeated
Tu Quoque
Epanalepsis
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Exergasia
46. 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
Protagoras
Checking for Example argument
Ill
Tu Quoque
47. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
Tisias
Formal Logic
Correctio
48. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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49. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Burden of proof
Blame
50. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Attitudinal (inherency)
Definitional (Stasis)
(Argument by) Example
Hasty Generalization