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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Small Sample
Blame
Division
Warrant
2. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Good Moral Character
Rhetoric
Parallelism
Plato
3. 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.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Begging the Question
Parallelism
Consistency
4. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
(Argument from) Testimony
Tokenism
5. 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
Conjectural (Stasis)
Rhetoric
Decision Rules
Composition
6. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Sound
Formal Logic
Gorgias
Appeal to Authority
7. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
(Argument from) Narrative
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Correctio
Locus of Existence
8. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Sign
Qualitative (Stasis)
Incrementum
Hasty Generalization
9. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Checking for Analogy argument
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Cliche
Status
10. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Composition
Rhetoric
Charisma
Debate Resolutions
11. 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?
Refutation
Checking for Testimony argument
Non Sequitur
Tools of Refutation
12. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Intelligence
Formal Debate
Direct Refutation
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
13. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Second
Tu Quoque
(Argument from) Cause
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
14. 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.
Ill
Unsound
Ethos
Appeal to Authority
15. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Refutation
Litotes
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
16. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
False Dichotomy
Non Sequitur
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Epanalepsis
17. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Locus of Quantity
Hyperbole
Quantitative (significance)
18. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Sophist
Attitudinal (inherency)
Toulmin Model
Unrepresentative Sample
19. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Consistency
Enthymeme
20. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Analogy
Refutation
Decorum
21. Ask a rhetorical question
Non Sequitur
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Erotema
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
22. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Plato
Unrepresentative Sample
Rhetoric
23. Deliberate correction
Correctio
Hyperbole
Good Moral Character
Common Practice (Fallacy)
24. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Structural (inherency)
Second (or) Third
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
25. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Erotema
Status
Simile
Charisma
26. 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'
Appeal to Authority
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Conjectural (Stasis)
Epistrophe
27. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Blame
Personification
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Euphimism
28. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Good Moral Character
Attitudinal (inherency)
Accident
29. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
Hyperbole
Cure
Blame
30. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Personification
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Cliche
(Argument of ) General probability
31. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Formal Debate
Refutation Potential
Intelligence
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
32. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Questionable Analogy
(Argument by) Example
Prolepsis
Appeal to Authority
33. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Special Topoi
Fallacies
Value-Oriented Arguments
Presumption
34. The inference moves from specific to general or from general to specific. The warrant to this argument usually reads 'what is true in this case is true in general' or 'what is true in general is true in this case'
(Argument by) Example
Checking for Testimony argument
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Metaphor
35. Reasoning from case to case
Checking for Sign argument
Categorical (Syllogism)
Blame
Analogy
36. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Epanalepsis
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Sign
Locus of Quantity
37. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Locus of Essence
Equivocation
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Cure
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.
Corax
Parallelism
Disassociation of Concepts
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
39. Value Hierarchy Visualization
(Argument from) Sign
Sophist
Tisias
Term I/Term II
40. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Hyperbole
Formal Debate
Exergasia
Refutation
41. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Warrant
Equivocation
Categorical (Syllogism)
42. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Composition
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Protagoras
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
43. A manufactured controversy that is motivated by profit or extreme ideology to intentionally create confusion in the public about an issue of scientific fact that is not in dispute by the scientific community. Used to stop debate at the conjectural le
Sign
Ethos
Debate Resolutions
Manufactroversy
44. 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 Essence
Exergasia
Manufactroversy
Tu Quoque
45. Exaggeration
Ethos
Mixed Metaphor
Hyperbole
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
46. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Sign
Personification
(Argument by) Analogy
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
47. Structure repeated
Structural (inherency)
Begging the Question
Parallelism
Isocrates
48. 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
Questionable Analogy
Litotes
(Argument by) Analogy
Ill
49. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Questionable Cause
Arguments
Epanalepsis
50. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Tools of Refutation
Euphimism
Claim
Deductive Reasoning