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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
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1. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest






2. Structure repeated






3. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:






4. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?






5. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.






6. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing






7. 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'






8. 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






9. 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






10. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






11. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.






12. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change






13. Value Hierarchy Visualization






14. If A then B A Therefore B






15. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.






16. The list that builds






17. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






18. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.






19. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.






20. Ask a rhetorical question






21. Set two things in opposition






22. 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






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






24. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties






25. Ideas repeated






26. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






27. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)






28. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?






29. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others






30. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'






31. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






32. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.






33. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'






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






35. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope






36. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost






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






38. 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






39. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






40. Beginning repeated






41. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____

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42. 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.






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






44. Opposite of Epanalepsis






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






46. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'






47. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






48. 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'






49. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?






50. 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