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1. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Popular Democracy
Intelligence
Definitional (Stasis)
Sign
2. If A then B A Therefore B
Procedural (Stasis)
Modus Ponens
Debate Resolutions
Good Will (Ethos)
3. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
(Argument from) Testimony
Metaphor
Decision Rules
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
4. 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
Modus Ponens
Toulmin Model
Conjectural (Stasis)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
5. Deliberate correction
Correctio
Consistency
Claim
Special Topoi
6. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Sophist
Straw Person
Correctio
7. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Mercenary Scientists
Ill
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Cost
8. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Hyperbole
Ill
Agree on Commonality then refute
Presumption
9. 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
Appeal to Ignorance
Attitudinal (inherency)
Blame
10. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Second
Antithesis
Gorgias
Checking for Analogy argument
11. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Modus Tollens
12. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Locus of Quantity
Antithesis
13. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Direct Refutation
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
14. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Epistrophe
Value Hierarchies
Composition
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
15. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Composition
Loci of the Preferable
Tools of Refutation
Value Hierarchies
16. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Simile
Prolepsis
Appeal to Authority
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
17. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Second (or) Third
Epistrophe
Mixed Metaphor
18. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Straw Person
Litotes
Questionable Cause
19. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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20. Oppostite of Litotes
Anaphora
Hyperbole
Prolepsis
Categorical (Syllogism)
21. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Stock Issues
Appeal to Ignorance
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Plato
22. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Prolepsis
Unsound
Mixed Metaphor
(Argument from) Sign
23. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Toulmin Model
Isocrates
Quantitative (significance)
First
24. 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?
Informal Debate
Checking for Testimony argument
Ill
(Special Topoi for) Science
25. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Turn
Charisma
Anadiplosis
Procedural (Stasis)
26. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Appeal to Ignorance
Checking for Sign argument
Hasty Generalization
Definitional (Stasis)
27. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Value-Oriented Arguments
Good Will (Ethos)
Small Sample
28. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
(Special Topoi for) Science
Blame
Conjectural (Stasis)
Claim
29. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Manufactroversy
Plato
Charisma
Refutation
30. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Value Hierarchies
Warrant
Turn
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
31. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Appeal to Authority
Blame
Toulmin Model
(Argument by) Analogy
32. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
(Argument by) Analogy
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Cure
Rhetoric
33. 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.
Warrant
(Argument from) Testimony
Disassociation of Concepts
Non Sequitur
34. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Syllogism
Toulmin Model
Parallelism
Gorgias
35. 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'
Corax
Equivocation
Tu Quoque
Mercenary Scientists
36. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Correctio
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
False Dichotomy
Argument
37. Ask a rhetorical question
Term I/Term II
Unequivocal
Erotema
Intelligence
38. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Quantitative (significance)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Division
39. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Gorgias
Rhetoric
Narrative
Sign
40. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Arguments
Correctio
Emotionally Charged (Language)
41. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Popular Democracy
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
False Dichotomy
Hyperbole
42. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Correctio
Situationally flawed
Decorum
Isocrates
43. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Checking for Example argument
Composition
Blame
Status
44. Term with lower (negative) value
Rhetoric
Parallelism
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Good Will (Ethos)
45. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Small Sample
Erotema
Formal Debate
Decorum
46. An argument that follows proper logical form
Division
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Valid
First
47. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Sophist
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Division
Ambiguity
48. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Conjectural (Stasis)
(Argument by) Analogy
Toulmin Model
Rhetoric
49. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Consistency
Tools of Refutation
Parallelism
Sign
50. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
(Special Topoi for) Science
Epanalepsis
Vehicle (and) Tenor
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