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1. Opposite of anadiplosis
Decorum
Epanalepsis
Plato
Grounds (or data)
2. 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
(Argument from) Testimony
(Fallacy of) Accident
Rhetoric
Conjectural (Stasis)
3. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Modus Tollens
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
4. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Questionable Cause
Refutation Potential
Modus Ponens
Appeal to Ignorance
5. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Hyperbole
Narrative
Toulmin Model
6. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Personification
Commonplaces
Decorum
Sound
7. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Mercenary Scientists
Informal Debate
Erotema
Valid
8. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
(Argument by) Analogy
Hyperbole
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Informal Debate
9. Term with higher (positive) value
Correctio
Fallacies
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Enthymeme
10. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
Locus of Essence
Division
Refutation Potential
11. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Appeal to Authority
False Dichotomy
Blame
(Argument by) Example
12. 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
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Composition
Red Herring
Categorical (Syllogism)
13. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
Hyperbole
Good Will (Ethos)
Term I/Term II
14. Ideas repeated
Exergasia
Blame
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Hasty Generalization
15. Opposite of Anaphora
Division
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
First
Epistrophe
16. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Appeal to Authority
Mixed Metaphor
Modus Tollens
Second
17. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Special Topoi
Stock Issues
Locus of Existence
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
18. 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
Special Topoi
Unequivocal
Antithesis
19. An argument with true premises and valid form
Ill
Sound
Formal Logic
Warrant
20. 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'
Simile
Hyperbole
(Argument from) Sign
(Special Topoi for) Science
21. Reasoning from case to case
(Argument by) Example
Hyperbole
Analogy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
22. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Straw Person
Definitional (Stasis)
Example
Warrant
23. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Valid
Charisma
Epistrophe
Locus of Quantity
24. Oppostite of Litotes
Ambiguity
Hyperbole
Antithesis
Quantitative (significance)
25. If A then B A Therefore B
Questionable Cause
Modus Ponens
Unrepresentative Sample
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
26. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Epanalepsis
Ad Populum
Division
Enthymeme
27. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
(Special Topoi for) Science
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Division
28. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
(Argument from) Sign
Appeal to Authority
Toulmin Model
Anadiplosis
29. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Narrative
(Argument of ) General probability
Tu Quoque
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
30. 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
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Quantitative (significance)
Cost
Shifting the Burden of Proof
31. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Epistrophe
Decision Rules
Second
32. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Refutation
Erotema
Analogy
Unequivocal
33. 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.
Debate Resolutions
Formal Debate
Appeal to Authority
Equivocation
34. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Begging the Question
Value Hierarchies
Situationally flawed
Presumption
35. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Gorgias
Anaphora
Locus of Existence
Argument
36. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Questionable Analogy
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Appeal to Authority
Begging the Question
37. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacies
Correctio
Ethos
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
38. 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.
Disassociation of Concepts
Refutation
Turn
Conjectural (Stasis)
39. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Burden of Rejoinder
Example
Hyperbole
Blame
40. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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41. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Checking for Example argument
Hasty Generalization
Disassociation of Concepts
Formal Logic
42. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
(Special Topoi for) Science
Checking for Narrative argument
Term I/Term II
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
43. Ask a rhetorical question
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Tokenism
Appeal to Ignorance
Erotema
44. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Definitional (Stasis)
Gorgias
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Burden of Rejoinder
45. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Unsound
Personification
Qualitative (Stasis)
46. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Fallacy Fallacy
Rhetoric
Appeal to Authority
Testimony
47. Structure repeated
Non Sequitur
Parallelism
Litotes
Ethos
48. 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
Tisias
Situationally flawed
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Litotes
49. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Fallacy Fallacy
Simile
Second (or) Third
Checking for Testimony argument
50. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Euphimism
Refutation Strategies
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Cliche