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Public Debating
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1. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Emotionally Charged (Language)
(Argument from) Cause
Straw Person
Metaphor
2. 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.
Ambiguity
Litotes
Checking for Cause argement
Disassociation of Concepts
3. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares
Formal Debate
Epanalepsis
Loci of the Preferable
Situationally flawed
4. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Presumption
Locus of Essence
Rhetoric
Locus of Quantity
5. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Consistency
Equivocation
Sign
Locus of Existence
6. Opposite of Anaphora
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Epistrophe
Enthymeme
Anadiplosis
7. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Sign
Testimony
Protagoras
False Dichotomy
8. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Ad Populum
Metaphor
Questionable Cause
Debate Resolutions
9. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Aristotle
Division
Hyperbole
Blame
10. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Erotema
Presumption
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Second (or) Third
11. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Begging the Question
Division
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Presumption
12. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Fallacies
Red Herring
Categorical (Syllogism)
Stock Issues
13. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
Rhetoric
Begging the Question
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
14. Opposite of Hyperbole
Procedural (Stasis)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Anadiplosis
Litotes
15. 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
Manufactroversy
Appeal to Authority
Rhetoric
Turn
16. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Charisma
Hyperbole
Modus Tollens
Checking for Narrative argument
17. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Correctio
(Argument from) Narrative
Sound
18. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Red Herring
Hasty Generalization
Debate Resolutions
Ill
19. 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
Rhetoric
Formal Debate
Stasis
First
20. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Unequivocal
Cliche
Sophist
21. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Anadiplosis
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Composition
Accident
22. Opposite of anadiplosis
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
(Special Topoi for) Science
Plato
Epanalepsis
23. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Warrant
Tisias
Litotes
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
24. 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'
Decorum
Ad Hominem
Charisma
Value Hierarchies
25. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Epistrophe
Refutation Potential
Division
Ill
26. Reasoning from case to case
Anaphora
Analogy
Ambiguity
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
27. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Deductive Reasoning
Ethos
Checking for Analogy argument
Ill
28. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Popular Democracy
Situationally flawed
Fallacy Fallacy
Euphimism
29. 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'
Ill
Checking for Example argument
Hyperbole
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
30. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Ethos
First
Sign
Status
31. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Refutation
Intelligence
Parallelism
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
32. What vehicles and tenors share
Rhetoric
Accident
Tokenism
Associated Commonplaces
33. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Definitional (Stasis)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Situationally flawed
34. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Claim
Division
Situationally flawed
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
35. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Sign
Aristotle
Checking for Sign argument
Anadiplosis
36. beginning repeated at ending
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Example
Epanalepsis
Checking for Narrative argument
37. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Second (or) Third
Debate Resolutions
Unequivocal
Epistrophe
38. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Analogy
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Epanalepsis
39. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Small Sample
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Sign
40. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Composition
Presumption
Personification
Non Sequitur
41. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Locus of Essence
Burden of proof
Rhetoric
Checking for Testimony argument
42. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Special Topoi
Value Hierarchies
Anadiplosis
Ad Hominem
43. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Parallelism
Turn
Ambiguity
First
44. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Second
Anaphora
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Fallacy Fallacy
45. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Toulmin Model
Attitudinal (inherency)
Appeal to Authority
Division
46. 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
Valid
Checking for Sign argument
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
47. 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?
Composition
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Refutation
Checking for Testimony argument
48. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Exergasia
Loci of the Preferable
Refutation Potential
49. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Attitudinal (inherency)
Protagoras
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
50. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Tu Quoque
Appeal to Ignorance
Litotes
Tisias