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Public Debating
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1. 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
Begging the Question
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Composition
2. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Tu Quoque
Conceding Arguments
Decorum
Good Will (Ethos)
3. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Antithesis
Plato
Modus Tollens
Cost
4. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Rhetoric
Conjectural (Stasis)
Equivocation
5. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Rhetoric
Sound
Tisias
Procedural (Stasis)
6. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Value-Oriented Arguments
Stock Issues
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Informal Debate
7. beginning repeated at ending
Decision Rules
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Associated Commonplaces
Epanalepsis
8. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Vehicle (and) Tenor
(Argument of ) General probability
Division
Situationally flawed
9. If A then B B Therefore - A
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
First
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Consistency
10. 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
Straw Person
Presumption
Qualitative (Stasis)
Formal Debate
11. 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
Checking for Narrative argument
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Corax
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
12. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Manufactroversy
Parallelism
Plato
Locus of Essence
13. 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
Formal Logic
Ill
Claim
Agree on Commonality then refute
14. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Fallacies
Euphimism
Exergasia
Checking for Cause argement
15. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec
(Argument by) Analogy
Ambiguity
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
(Argument of ) General probability
16. 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
Red Herring
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Formal Debate
17. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Non Sequitur
Composition
Epanalepsis
18. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Burden of proof
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Locus of Quality
19. Reasoning from case to case
Analogy
Tu Quoque
Ill
Unsound
20. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Stock Issues
Locus of Quantity
Intelligence
Stasis
21. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Rhetoric
Anaphora
Analogy
Ill
22. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Epistrophe
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Direct Refutation
Rhetoric
23. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
(Fallacy of) Accident
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Conjectural (Stasis)
Cost
24. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Hasty Generalization
Refutation Strategies
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Anaphora
25. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Anaphora
Locus of Quantity
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Modus Ponens
26. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Parallelism
Division
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
27. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Checking for Sign argument
Intelligence
Sign
Litotes
28. Opposite of Hyperbole
Non Sequitur
Litotes
Corax
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
29. After this - therefore on account of this
Epanalepsis
Non Sequitur
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
30. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Situationally flawed
Ad Populum
Enthymeme
Presumption
31. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Litotes
(Special Topoi for) Science
32. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
Tisias
(Argument from) Cause
Erotema
Straw Person
33. Ending repeated
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Litotes
Composition
Epistrophe
34. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Sign
Questionable Analogy
(Special Topoi for) Science
Metaphor
35. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Quantitative (significance)
Composition
Archetypal (Metaphor)
36. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?
Checking for Testimony argument
Structural (inherency)
Litotes
Division
37. 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
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Gorgias
Ill
Associated Commonplaces
38. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
(Argument of ) General probability
Accident
Disassociation of Concepts
Vehicle (and) Tenor
39. '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?
Structural (inherency)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Example
Hyperbole
40. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Equivocation
Ad Populum
Quantitative (significance)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
41. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Rhetoric
Agree on Commonality then refute
Attitudinal (inherency)
Mixed Metaphor
42. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Appeal to Ignorance
Non Sequitur
Good Will (Ethos)
Turn
43. 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
Locus of Existence
Burden of proof
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
44. 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
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Decision Rules
Appeal to Authority
Checking for Sign argument
45. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Claim
Anadiplosis
Second
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
46. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Litotes
Enthymeme
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Warrant
47. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Ill
Valid
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Argument
48. Structure repeated
Locus of Quality
Refutation
Parallelism
Conjectural (Stasis)
49. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Tools of Refutation
Argument
Structural (inherency)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
50. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Parallelism
Checking for Narrative argument
Manufactroversy