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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






2. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____






3. Value Hierarchy Visualization






4. Opposite of anadiplosis






5. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






6. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument






7. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






8. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






9. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?






10. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts






11. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.






12. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?






13. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






14. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C






15. beginning repeated at ending






16. Circular Reasoning






17. Ending repeated






18. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides






19. 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






20. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument






21. 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'






22. 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






23. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest






24. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success






25. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.






26. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






27. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?






28. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts






29. Structure repeated






30. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.






31. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.






32. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






33. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible






34. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives






35. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.






36. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective






37. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.






38. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas






39. Ask a rhetorical question






40. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.






41. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity






42. Ideas repeated






43. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins






44. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.






45. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope






46. 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:






47. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity






48. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)






49. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses






50. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec