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1. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Syllogism
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Metaphor
Composition
2. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Correctio
Second
Turn
Unrepresentative Sample
3. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Popular Democracy
Hasty Generalization
Ill
Rhetoric
4. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Refutation Strategies
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Disassociation of Concepts
5. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Ad Populum
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Claim
6. 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?
Example
Locus of Essence
Checking for Example argument
Decorum
7. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Protagoras
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
False Dichotomy
Emotionally Charged (Language)
8. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Ill
Composition
Metaphor
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
9. Circular Reasoning
Stasis
Tokenism
Argument
Begging the Question
10. Opposite of anadiplosis
Special Topoi
Epanalepsis
Refutation
Hasty Generalization
11. 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
Hasty Generalization
Formal Debate
Manufactroversy
Mixed Metaphor
12. 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.
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Rhetoric
Corax
Begging the Question
13. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Litotes
Epistrophe
Isocrates
14. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Cure
Second (or) Third
Valid
Gorgias
15. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Ad Populum
Straw Person
Appeal to Authority
Protagoras
16. 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
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Status
Antithesis
Epanalepsis
17. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Sound
Fallacies
Checking for Testimony argument
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
18. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Begging the Question
(Argument from) Testimony
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Loci of the Preferable
19. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Deductive Reasoning
Agree on Commonality then refute
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
20. Structure repeated
Grounds (or data)
Ambiguity
Parallelism
Status
21. 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
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Structural (inherency)
Cure
22. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.
Rhetoric
Locus of Essence
Division
Straw Person
23. Oppostite of Litotes
Enthymeme
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Hyperbole
Division
24. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Tu Quoque
Toulmin Model
Exergasia
25. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Loci of the Preferable
Isocrates
Ambiguity
Composition
26. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Epistrophe
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Red Herring
Exergasia
27. Term with higher (positive) value
Isocrates
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Definitional (Stasis)
Hasty Generalization
28. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Fallacy Fallacy
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Composition
Locus of Quantity
29. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Intelligence
Stasis
Modus Tollens
(Argument of ) General probability
30. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Checking for Testimony argument
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Good Moral Character
31. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Tokenism
Ill
Antithesis
Analogy
32. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Red Herring
Locus of Essence
Analogy
33. 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'
Tu Quoque
Valid
Ethos
Euphimism
34. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Ponens
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Unsound
Associated Commonplaces
35. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Straw Person
Status
Locus of Quantity
Blame
36. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Tu Quoque
Appeal to Ignorance
Attitudinal (inherency)
Non Sequitur
37. Opposite of Epistrophe
Epistrophe
Epanalepsis
Anaphora
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
38. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Sound
Analogy
39. An argument with true premises and valid form
Sound
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Composition
Sign
40. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Cost
Popular Democracy
Unequivocal
41. 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
Accident
Ill
Decorum
Arguments
42. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Division
Rhetoric
Informal Debate
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
43. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Checking for Cause argement
Presumption
Qualitative (Stasis)
44. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Unsound
Anaphora
Refutation Strategies
Enthymeme
45. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Ill
Qualitative (Stasis)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
46. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Parallelism
Division
(Argument by) Example
Erotema
47. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Argument
Unequivocal
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Syllogism
48. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Value Hierarchies
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Archetypal (Metaphor)
49. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Anadiplosis
Composition
Value-Oriented Arguments
Metaphor
50. 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'
Tokenism
Blame
Checking for Cause argement
(Argument from) Cause
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