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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)






2. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'






3. 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'






4. 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






5. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument






6. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth






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






8. Opposite of Epanalepsis






9. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.






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






11. 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






12. 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.






13. 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






14. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.






15. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties






16. 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






17. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?






18. Oppostite of Litotes






19. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another






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






21. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






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






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






24. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






25. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






26. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue






27. 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.






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






29. If A then B A Therefore B






30. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?






31. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?






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






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






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






35. Understatement






36. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C






37. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






38. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?






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






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






41. Set two things in opposition






42. 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'






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.






48. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population






49. Term with lower (negative) value






50. Exaggeration