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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
(Argument from) Cause
Status
Hyperbole
Checking for Cause argement
2. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Attitudinal (inherency)
Begging the Question
Fallacy Fallacy
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
3. Good Moral Character
Simile
Hasty Generalization
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
4. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Corax
Sophist
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Good Will (Ethos)
5. 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.
Appeal to Authority
Antithesis
Epistrophe
Testimony
6. 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
Epanalepsis
Ill
Formal Debate
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
7. An argument that follows proper logical form
Anaphora
Composition
Structural (inherency)
Valid
8. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Exergasia
Questionable Analogy
Appeal to Ignorance
Decision Rules
9. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Epistrophe
Mixed Metaphor
Good Will (Ethos)
10. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Cost
Rhetoric
Sign
Special Topoi
11. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Qualitative (Stasis)
Rhetoric
Simile
Equivocation
12. Opposite of Anaphora
Exergasia
Epistrophe
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
13. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Antithesis
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Gorgias
Appeal to Ignorance
14. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Begging the Question
Metaphor
Begging the Question
15. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Hyperbole
Prolepsis
(Argument by) Example
16. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Grounds (or data)
Unrepresentative Sample
Composition
Ethos
17. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Stock Issues
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Tu Quoque
Equivocation
18. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Hyperbole
Refutation Potential
Popular Democracy
Locus of Existence
19. Exaggeration
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Plato
Anadiplosis
Hyperbole
20. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Checking for Cause argement
(Argument from) Sign
Refutation Potential
Hyperbole
21. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Refutation Strategies
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
22. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Appeal to Ignorance
Syllogism
Isocrates
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
23. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Testimony
Anadiplosis
Refutation
First
24. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Analogy
Anadiplosis
Checking for Example argument
Questionable Cause
25. 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
Decorum
(Fallacy of) Accident
Personification
Shifting the Burden of Proof
26. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Ambiguity
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Commonplaces
Syllogism
27. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Ill
First
False Charge of Fallacy
False Dichotomy
28. 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'
Ad Hominem
Claim
Gorgias
Hyperbole
29. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Appeal to Authority
Protagoras
Deductive Reasoning
Presumption
30. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Locus of Essence
Decision Rules
Anadiplosis
Correctio
31. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Locus of Existence
Parallelism
32. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Qualitative (Stasis)
False Charge of Fallacy
Locus of Quantity
Ethos
33. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Manufactroversy
Structural (inherency)
Appeal to Authority
34. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Status
Emotionally Charged (Language)
35. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Formal Logic
Stasis
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Personification
36. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Questionable Cause
Tisias
Turn
Sign
37. 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
Formal Debate
Charisma
Checking for Analogy argument
Example
38. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Checking for Narrative argument
Division
Structural (inherency)
Formal Logic
39. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Attitudinal (inherency)
Conceding Arguments
False Charge of Fallacy
Ill
40. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Unrepresentative Sample
(Fallacy of) Accident
(Argument by) Example
Epanalepsis
41. Term with lower (negative) value
Cliche
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Erotema
Toulmin Model
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
Non Sequitur
Categorical (Syllogism)
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Procedural (Stasis)
43. Opposite of Epistrophe
(Argument of ) General probability
Anaphora
Ill
Ill
44. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Analogy
Situationally flawed
Arguments
45. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Corax
Grounds (or data)
Rhetoric
Litotes
46. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
(Argument by) Example
Blame
Burden of proof
47. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Ill
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Second (or) Third
Informal Debate
48. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Prolepsis
Locus of Quantity
Incrementum
49. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
Modus Ponens
Mixed Metaphor
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
50. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Epanalepsis
Unequivocal
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Agree on Commonality then refute