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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Testimony
Ambiguity
Popular Democracy
Archetypal (Metaphor)
2. If A then B A Therefore B
Small Sample
Direct Refutation
Modus Ponens
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
3. 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
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Fallacy Fallacy
Manufactroversy
Analogy
4. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Protagoras
Tu Quoque
Testimony
Prolepsis
5. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacy Fallacy
Fallacies
Commonplaces
Common Practice (Fallacy)
6. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Attitudinal (inherency)
Ad Hominem
Hasty Generalization
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
7. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Exergasia
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Erotema
8. 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
Rhetoric
Enthymeme
Parallelism
Cost
9. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Checking for Testimony argument
Informal Debate
Rhetoric
Hasty Generalization
10. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Decision Rules
False Charge of Fallacy
Ad Hominem
11. Opposite of Hyperbole
Stasis
Litotes
Stock Issues
(Argument from) Narrative
12. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Unrepresentative Sample
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Sophist
Informal Debate
13. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Composition
Direct Refutation
Straw Person
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
14. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Litotes
(Argument by) Example
Mercenary Scientists
Good Will (Ethos)
15. 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)
Arguments
Sophist
Fallacy Fallacy
Warrant
16. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Rhetoric
Antithesis
Attitudinal (inherency)
Checking for Narrative argument
17. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
(Argument by) Example
Checking for Narrative argument
Burden of Rejoinder
18. Opposite of Anaphora
Formal Debate
Personification
Epistrophe
Division
19. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
Red Herring
Ad Hominem
Metaphor
20. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Small Sample
(Fallacy of) Accident
Quantitative (significance)
Value-Oriented Arguments
21. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Metaphor
Sign
Commonplaces
Rhetoric
22. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Intelligence
Burden of proof
Checking for Narrative argument
Appeal to Authority
23. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Locus of Essence
Exergasia
24. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
False Dichotomy
Value Hierarchies
Structural (inherency)
Blame
25. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Example
Sign
26. 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
Rhetoric
Agree on Commonality then refute
Antithesis
Tokenism
27. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members
Situationally flawed
Good Moral Character
Protagoras
Hasty Generalization
28. Structure repeated
Burden of proof
Non Sequitur
Arguments
Parallelism
29. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Gorgias
Straw Person
Litotes
(Argument from) Narrative
30. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Definitional (Stasis)
Metaphor
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
31. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Appeal to Ignorance
Attitudinal (inherency)
Refutation
Formal Debate
32. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Stock Issues
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Blame
Epanalepsis
33. 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?
Epanalepsis
Checking for Cause argement
Sign
Epistrophe
34. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Modus Tollens
False Charge of Fallacy
Cure
Correctio
35. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Erotema
Narrative
Tisias
Locus of Existence
36. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Incrementum
Cliche
Parallelism
37. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Sound
Aristotle
Anadiplosis
Rhetoric
38. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Correctio
Second
Incrementum
Cliche
39. 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?
Checking for Example argument
Sound
Deductive Reasoning
Anaphora
40. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Appeal to Authority
(Argument from) Sign
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
41. 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
Straw Person
Arguments
Personification
42. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B
Rhetoric
Rhetoric
Modus Ponens
Categorical (Syllogism)
43. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Associated Commonplaces
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Mixed Metaphor
Ambiguity
44. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Non Sequitur
Decorum
Appeal to Ignorance
Conjectural (Stasis)
45. Good Moral Character
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Refutation
Locus of Essence
Value Hierarchies
46. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Blame
Procedural (Stasis)
Correctio
Value Hierarchies
47. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Categorical (Syllogism)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Rhetoric
Correctio
48. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Associated Commonplaces
Good Moral Character
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Checking for Example argument
49. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Exergasia
Anaphora
Epanalepsis
Litotes
50. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Blame
Categorical (Syllogism)
Ambiguity
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)