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1. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Rhetoric
Appeal to Ignorance
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Tu Quoque
2. Ideas repeated
Exergasia
Popular Democracy
Parallelism
Burden of Rejoinder
3. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)
Claim
Anadiplosis
Fallacy Fallacy
Ethos
4. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Appeal to Ignorance
Unrepresentative Sample
Example
Non Sequitur
5. Structure repeated
Attitudinal (inherency)
Parallelism
(Argument of ) General probability
Gorgias
6. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Quantitative (significance)
Fallacies
Non Sequitur
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
7. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Good Will (Ethos)
Stock Issues
Ethos
Arguments
8. 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'
Red Herring
Associated Commonplaces
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Tu Quoque
9. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Ethos
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Burden of Rejoinder
Analogy
10. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Epistrophe
Questionable Analogy
Locus of Quality
Fallacy Fallacy
11. Understatement
Litotes
Argument
Debate Resolutions
First
12. Opposite of anadiplosis
Protagoras
Correctio
Epanalepsis
Rhetoric
13. 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
Presumption
False Dichotomy
Syllogism
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
14. 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?
Syllogism
Ad Populum
Unrepresentative Sample
Checking for Testimony argument
15. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Litotes
Checking for Narrative argument
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
16. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Sophist
Locus of Essence
Argument
Emotionally Charged (Language)
17. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Personification
(Special Topoi for) Science
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Fallacy Fallacy
18. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.
Unrepresentative Sample
Value-Oriented Arguments
Claim
Testimony
19. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
(Argument from) Testimony
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Checking for Analogy argument
Second (or) Third
20. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Second
Categorical (Syllogism)
Euphimism
Analogy
21. 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
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Rhetoric
Narrative
Modus Ponens
22. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Syllogism
Associated Commonplaces
Direct Refutation
Shifting the Burden of Proof
23. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Fallacies
Second
Procedural (Stasis)
24. 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'
Charisma
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Metaphor
Personification
25. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Direct Refutation
Questionable Cause
Protagoras
Euphimism
26. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Presumption
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Antithesis
Epistrophe
27. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Litotes
Prolepsis
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Erotema
28. 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
Second (or) Third
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Corax
(Argument by) Analogy
29. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Arguments
Checking for Cause argement
Attitudinal (inherency)
Epistrophe
30. Oppostite of Litotes
Hyperbole
Sign
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Loci of the Preferable
31. Metaphors use ____ and ____
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Refutation Strategies
(Argument from) Cause
32. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
Modus Tollens
Refutation Potential
Common Practice (Fallacy)
33. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Direct Refutation
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Tisias
Appeal to Ignorance
34. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Erotema
Arguments
Turn
Common Practice (Fallacy)
35. 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
(Argument by) Example
Appeal to Authority
Small Sample
Non Sequitur
36. Beginning repeated
Debate Resolutions
Anaphora
Hyperbole
Checking for Testimony argument
37. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Hasty Generalization
Prolepsis
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Ad Hominem
38. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Ill
Composition
Toulmin Model
Appeal to Authority
39. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Isocrates
Non Sequitur
(Argument from) Sign
Blame
40. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'
Cure
Non Sequitur
Erotema
False Dichotomy
41. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
(Special Topoi for) Science
Antithesis
42. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Anaphora
Anaphora
Popular Democracy
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
43. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
False Dichotomy
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Epanalepsis
Second (or) Third
44. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Checking for Example argument
Epanalepsis
Toulmin Model
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
45. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Blame
Analogy
Checking for Narrative argument
Appeal to Authority
46. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Gorgias
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Hyperbole
Correctio
47. Opposite of Anaphora
Epistrophe
Locus of Existence
Tu Quoque
Debate Resolutions
48. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Term I/Term II
Locus of Quantity
Antithesis
49. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Questionable Cause
Appeal to Authority
Value Hierarchies
Unrepresentative Sample
50. Can the sign be found without the thing for which it stands? Is an alternative explanation of the maning of the sign more credible? Are there countering signs that indicate that his one sign is false?
Antithesis
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Hyperbole
Checking for Sign argument