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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ask a rhetorical question
(Argument from) Sign
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Aristotle
Erotema
2. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Checking for Testimony argument
Direct Refutation
Cost
Value-Oriented Arguments
3. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Hyperbole
Attitudinal (inherency)
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Epistrophe
4. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Rhetoric
Second (or) Third
Presumption
Epistrophe
5. 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'
Locus of Quality
Qualitative (Stasis)
Tu Quoque
Conjectural (Stasis)
6. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Argument
Manufactroversy
7. 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'
Begging the Question
(Argument from) Testimony
Locus of Essence
Appeal to Authority
8. If A then B B Therefore - A
Sound
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Composition
Hyperbole
9. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Erotema
Metaphor
Correctio
Hasty Generalization
10. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B
Categorical (Syllogism)
Cost
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Definitional (Stasis)
11. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Categorical (Syllogism)
Narrative
Tisias
Status
12. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Narrative
Status
Accident
Rhetoric
13. 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)
Consistency
Associated Commonplaces
Claim
14. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Metaphor
Stasis
Syllogism
15. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Informal Debate
Questionable Cause
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Hyperbole
16. Deliberate correction
Correctio
Plato
Incrementum
(Fallacy of) Accident
17. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
Formal Logic
Composition
Testimony
18. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
(Argument from) Sign
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Ill
19. 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.
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Straw Person
Litotes
Red Herring
20. Term with higher (positive) value
Intelligence
Anadiplosis
Rhetoric
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
21. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Turn
Checking for Example argument
Prolepsis
22. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Turn
Testimony
Division
Exergasia
23. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Division
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Decision Rules
24. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Unsound
Second (or) Third
25. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Deductive Reasoning
Situationally flawed
Antithesis
Plato
26. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Isocrates
Exergasia
Rhetoric
Checking for Narrative argument
27. '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?
Equivocation
(Argument of ) General probability
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Example
28. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Checking for Analogy argument
(Argument by) Example
Claim
29. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Enthymeme
Quantitative (significance)
Epistrophe
Checking for Analogy argument
30. Is necessary to defend the weak against the strong - Is useful and necessary to the state and the individual because you become a more thoughtful citizen and a more well-rounded person - Is useful to have the tools to recognize good arguments and def
Division
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Rhetoric
Ambiguity
31. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Ad Populum
Rhetoric
Euphimism
32. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Claim
First
Second
Small Sample
33. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Second
Unequivocal
Ill
Ad Populum
34. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Formal Debate
Argument
Checking for Narrative argument
Rhetoric
35. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Tokenism
Isocrates
Ad Populum
Refutation Potential
36. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Gorgias
Begging the Question
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Accident
37. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Decorum
Begging the Question
Testimony
Rhetoric
38. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'
Agree on Commonality then refute
Locus of Essence
(Argument from) Narrative
Loci of the Preferable
39. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Isocrates
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Good Moral Character
Division
40. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Questionable Analogy
Loci of the Preferable
Division
Sign
41. 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
Ethos
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Loci of the Preferable
Checking for Testimony argument
42. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Situationally flawed
(Argument by) Analogy
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Division
43. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Warrant
Hyperbole
Conjectural (Stasis)
Litotes
44. 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
Red Herring
Grounds (or data)
Sound
Correctio
45. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Tu Quoque
Enthymeme
Qualitative (Stasis)
Questionable Analogy
46. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Checking for Example argument
Second
Non Sequitur
Sophist
47. Ending repeated
Unequivocal
Epistrophe
Isocrates
Presumption
48. An argument that follows proper logical form
Parallelism
(Argument from) Sign
Agree on Commonality then refute
Valid
49. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Begging the Question
Agree on Commonality then refute
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Unsound
50. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Syllogism
Associated Commonplaces
Tu Quoque
Parallelism