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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Cost
Ethos
Correctio
2. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Unequivocal
Locus of Quality
Debate Resolutions
Disassociation of Concepts
3. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Informal Debate
Modus Ponens
Good Moral Character
Rhetoric
4. The inference reasons that what a trustworthy source says is true. The warrant to this argument usually says - 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true'
Accident
Burden of Rejoinder
(Argument from) Testimony
Disassociation of Concepts
5. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Composition
Anadiplosis
6. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Questionable Analogy
Erotema
Rhetoric
Personification
7. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Ill
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
(Argument from) Sign
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
8. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Appeal to Authority
Status
Attitudinal (inherency)
Rhetoric
9. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Correctio
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Equivocation
10. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Checking for Example argument
Ill
11. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Ambiguity
(Argument by) Analogy
Example
Personification
12. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Quantitative (significance)
Non Sequitur
13. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Epanalepsis
Quantitative (significance)
Arguments
Plato
14. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Unsound
Anadiplosis
Tools of Refutation
Ad Hominem
15. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Agree on Commonality then refute
Modus Tollens
Refutation Strategies
16. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Cost
Composition
Fallacy Fallacy
17. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Warrant
Questionable Analogy
Informal Debate
Accident
18. 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?
Checking for Analogy argument
Mercenary Scientists
(Fallacy of) Accident
Burden of Rejoinder
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
Tu Quoque
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Formal Debate
Litotes
20. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Litotes
Blame
Argument
Hyperbole
21. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Special Topoi
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Questionable Analogy
(Special Topoi for) Science
22. 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
Loci of the Preferable
Charisma
Intelligence
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
23. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Charisma
Anadiplosis
Conjectural (Stasis)
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
24. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Litotes
Quantitative (significance)
Mercenary Scientists
25. 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
Red Herring
Ethos
Special Topoi
Quantitative (significance)
26. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Red Herring
Formal Logic
Non Sequitur
Second (or) Third
27. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Burden of Rejoinder
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Parallelism
28. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Direct Refutation
Straw Person
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
29. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'
Ad Hominem
(Argument by) Example
Questionable Analogy
(Argument from) Narrative
30. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Conceding Arguments
Epanalepsis
Straw Person
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
31. 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.
Term I/Term II
Debate Resolutions
Consistency
Anadiplosis
32. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Decision Rules
Gorgias
Sign
Checking for Testimony argument
33. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Manufactroversy
Analogy
Tu Quoque
Prolepsis
34. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Erotema
First
Popular Democracy
Corax
35. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Fallacy Fallacy
Direct Refutation
Appeal to Ignorance
Stasis
36. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Anaphora
Structural (inherency)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
37. Set two things in opposition
Epanalepsis
Cliche
Antithesis
Ad Hominem
38. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Questionable Cause
Conjectural (Stasis)
Hasty Generalization
Cost
39. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Modus Tollens
Anaphora
Cost
Rhetoric
40. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Questionable Analogy
Rhetoric
Ad Populum
Arguments
41. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Testimony
Good Moral Character
Definitional (Stasis)
Status
42. Opposite of Hyperbole
Parallelism
Litotes
Non Sequitur
Rhetoric
43. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Stasis
(Argument from) Testimony
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Epanalepsis
44. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Valid
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Second (or) Third
45. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Burden of proof
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Procedural (Stasis)
Attitudinal (inherency)
46. Term with higher (positive) value
(Fallacy of) Accident
Deductive Reasoning
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
47. Does one thing really cause the other - or are they merely correlated? Is there another larger cause or series of causes that better explains the effect?
Erotema
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Red Herring
Checking for Cause argement
48. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Gorgias
Cliche
Tisias
49. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Toulmin Model
Situationally flawed
Cure
Ad Populum
50. Beginning repeated
Fallacies
(Argument from) Narrative
Anaphora
Appeal to Authority