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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?






2. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success






3. Exaggeration






4. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue






5. 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






6. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience






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






8. If A then B A Therefore B






9. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






10. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






11. Beginning repeated






12. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






13. Deliberate correction






14. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






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






16. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)






17. 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 -'






18. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.






19. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C






20. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?






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






22. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing






23. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






24. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible






25. Opposite of Epanalepsis






26. After this - therefore on account of this






27. 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'






28. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






35. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






36. 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






37. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)






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






39. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?






40. 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.






41. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry






42. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?






43. 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






44. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?






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






46. Circular Reasoning






47. Ask a rhetorical question






48. 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'






49. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument






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