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Public Debating
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1. 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
Situationally flawed
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Rhetoric
Popular Democracy
2. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Claim
(Argument from) Testimony
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Ethos
3. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
(Argument by) Example
(Argument from) Cause
Conceding Arguments
Grounds (or data)
4. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Enthymeme
Tisias
Litotes
Prolepsis
5. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
(Argument from) Cause
Prolepsis
Locus of Existence
Intelligence
6. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Anaphora
Direct Refutation
Associated Commonplaces
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
7. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Ethos
Exergasia
Consistency
(Argument from) Sign
8. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Anaphora
Mercenary Scientists
Checking for Analogy argument
Anaphora
9. 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
Division
(Argument by) Example
Categorical (Syllogism)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
10. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Erotema
Division
Quantitative (significance)
Term I/Term II
11. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Composition
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Tu Quoque
Correctio
12. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Blame
Popular Democracy
Unsound
Mixed Metaphor
13. 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'
Appeal to Authority
Exergasia
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Locus of Essence
14. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Conceding Arguments
Definitional (Stasis)
Arguments
Non Sequitur
15. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Testimony
Parallelism
Modus Tollens
Modus Ponens
16. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Charisma
Definitional (Stasis)
Turn
Epanalepsis
17. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Unequivocal
Situationally flawed
(Argument by) Example
Questionable Analogy
18. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
False Charge of Fallacy
Loci of the Preferable
Conceding Arguments
Sound
19. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Anadiplosis
Locus of Quality
Antithesis
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
20. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Toulmin Model
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Corax
Good Will (Ethos)
21. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Qualitative (Stasis)
Unsound
Term I/Term II
Appeal to Authority
22. Opposite of anadiplosis
Epanalepsis
Erotema
Status
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
23. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Anadiplosis
(Fallacy of) Accident
Plato
Procedural (Stasis)
24. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Composition
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Blame
Checking for Narrative argument
25. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Tu Quoque
(Argument from) Sign
Categorical (Syllogism)
Quantitative (significance)
26. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Anadiplosis
Qualitative (Stasis)
Isocrates
27. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Appeal to Ignorance
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Debate Resolutions
Incrementum
28. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Qualitative (Stasis)
Correctio
Situationally flawed
Structural (inherency)
29. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Structural (inherency)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Erotema
30. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Associated Commonplaces
Warrant
(Argument of ) General probability
Locus of Quality
31. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Anadiplosis
(Argument of ) General probability
Definitional (Stasis)
Tokenism
32. The list that builds
Equivocation
Analogy
Incrementum
Categorical (Syllogism)
33. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Toulmin Model
Definitional (Stasis)
Quantitative (significance)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
34. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Toulmin Model
Decorum
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Enthymeme
35. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Locus of Essence
Status
False Dichotomy
Rhetoric
36. 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
Agree on Commonality then refute
Term I/Term II
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
37. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Appeal to Authority
Sign
Second (or) Third
Decision Rules
38. Opposite of Hyperbole
(Argument by) Example
Questionable Analogy
Litotes
Erotema
39. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Argument
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
40. 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'
Exergasia
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Metaphor
Ad Hominem
41. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
Unrepresentative Sample
Stock Issues
Small Sample
(Argument from) Cause
42. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Epistrophe
Anadiplosis
Refutation
Tokenism
43. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Structural (inherency)
Ad Populum
Non Sequitur
Analogy
44. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Red Herring
Ad Hominem
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
45. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Cure
Intelligence
Exergasia
Value-Oriented Arguments
46. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Appeal to Ignorance
Checking for Testimony argument
Metaphor
47. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Intelligence
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Prolepsis
48. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Special Topoi
Hyperbole
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Grounds (or data)
49. Reasoning from case to case
Testimony
Ill
Analogy
Locus of Quality
50. Understatement
Litotes
Anadiplosis
Mercenary Scientists
Checking for Sign argument
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