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1. 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
Agree on Commonality then refute
Correctio
Division
Loci of the Preferable
2. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Syllogism
Cost
3. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Anaphora
Epanalepsis
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
4. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Epistrophe
(Argument by) Analogy
Checking for Testimony argument
5. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Cliche
Checking for Example argument
Epanalepsis
6. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Mercenary Scientists
Checking for Analogy argument
Tokenism
Appeal to Ignorance
7. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Checking for Testimony argument
8. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Metaphor
Composition
Unrepresentative Sample
Prolepsis
9. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Cost
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Litotes
Locus of Existence
10. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Hyperbole
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Agree on Commonality then refute
Exergasia
11. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Rhetoric
Gorgias
Appeal to Ignorance
Common Practice (Fallacy)
12. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Hasty Generalization
Non Sequitur
Personification
Begging the Question
13. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Refutation
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Formal Logic
Example
14. 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.
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Unrepresentative Sample
False Dichotomy
Composition
15. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Procedural (Stasis)
Ad Populum
Anadiplosis
16. The list that builds
Disassociation of Concepts
Incrementum
Rhetoric
Qualitative (Stasis)
17. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
Anadiplosis
Appeal to Ignorance
18. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Questionable Cause
Anadiplosis
Small Sample
Burden of Rejoinder
19. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Exergasia
Cliche
Epanalepsis
Situationally flawed
20. Deliberate correction
Debate Resolutions
Good Moral Character
Decorum
Correctio
21. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument of ) General probability
Small Sample
Debate Resolutions
Tisias
22. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Agree on Commonality then refute
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Formal Logic
23. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Composition
Locus of Quantity
(Argument from) Sign
False Dichotomy
24. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Value-Oriented Arguments
Begging the Question
Commonplaces
25. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Questionable Cause
Hyperbole
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Argument
26. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Tu Quoque
Composition
Tisias
Litotes
27. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Consistency
Metaphor
Rhetoric
Checking for Sign argument
28. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Non Sequitur
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Popular Democracy
Anaphora
29. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Popular Democracy
Checking for Example argument
Appeal to Ignorance
Modus Tollens
30. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Sophist
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Good Will (Ethos)
Hyperbole
31. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Division
Mercenary Scientists
(Argument from) Sign
32. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Stasis
Conjectural (Stasis)
Refutation Potential
Toulmin Model
33. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Appeal to Ignorance
Conceding Arguments
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
34. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Sign
Protagoras
Epanalepsis
Example
35. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:
Litotes
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Presumption
Blame
36. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Definitional (Stasis)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Ad Populum
37. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Procedural (Stasis)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Unsound
Erotema
38. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Good Will (Ethos)
Second
Quantitative (significance)
(Argument from) Narrative
39. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Stasis
Sophist
Narrative
Emotionally Charged (Language)
40. Ideas repeated
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Cliche
(Argument by) Example
Exergasia
41. Opposite of anadiplosis
Metaphor
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Exergasia
Epanalepsis
42. Term with higher (positive) value
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Anadiplosis
Arguments
43. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
Mercenary Scientists
Narrative
Tu Quoque
44. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Blame
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Decision Rules
45. After this - therefore on account of this
Protagoras
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Syllogism
Fallacies
46. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Unsound
Decorum
Blame
Epanalepsis
47. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Stasis
Rhetoric
Deductive Reasoning
Tu Quoque
48. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Sound
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Epanalepsis
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
49. If A then B B Therefore - A
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Anaphora
Non Sequitur
Accident
50. Opposite of Anaphora
Epistrophe
Locus of Quality
Debate Resolutions
Disassociation of Concepts