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soft-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Value-Oriented Arguments
Erotema
Questionable Cause
Fallacy Fallacy
2. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Attitudinal (inherency)
Correctio
Burden of Rejoinder
Litotes
3. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Analogy
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Refutation
Decision Rules
4. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Status
Corax
Refutation Potential
Value Hierarchies
5. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Warrant
Agree on Commonality then refute
Tokenism
Appeal to Ignorance
6. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'
Tisias
(Argument from) Narrative
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Anaphora
7. Opposite of Hyperbole
Checking for Example argument
Unsound
Litotes
Disassociation of Concepts
8. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Plato
Mixed Metaphor
Ethos
Informal Debate
9. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Epanalepsis
Situationally flawed
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Small Sample
10. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Metaphor
Good Moral Character
Epistrophe
Epanalepsis
11. 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.
Isocrates
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Disassociation of Concepts
Epistrophe
12. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Exergasia
Correctio
Simile
Refutation Potential
13. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Epistrophe
Begging the Question
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Modus Tollens
14. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Parallelism
Composition
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Mixed Metaphor
15. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Mixed Metaphor
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Erotema
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
16. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Composition
Quantitative (significance)
Correctio
False Charge of Fallacy
17. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Conceding Arguments
Ad Populum
Informal Debate
Ethos
18. Oppostite of Litotes
Hyperbole
Arguments
Appeal to Ignorance
Analogy
19. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Incrementum
Manufactroversy
Attitudinal (inherency)
Appeal to Ignorance
20. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Locus of Essence
Warrant
Personification
Aristotle
21. beginning repeated at ending
Litotes
(Argument of ) General probability
Analogy
Epanalepsis
22. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Ponens
Metaphor
Sound
Appeal to Ignorance
23. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Special Topoi
Blame
Locus of Quantity
24. 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
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Cost
Manufactroversy
Value-Oriented Arguments
25. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Grounds (or data)
Second (or) Third
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Sign
26. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Tools of Refutation
Valid
Erotema
(Argument by) Analogy
27. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'
Incrementum
Shifting the Burden of Proof
(Argument from) Sign
Composition
28. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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29. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Valid
Tu Quoque
Questionable Analogy
Second (or) Third
30. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
False Dichotomy
Categorical (Syllogism)
Locus of Essence
Fallacies
31. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Valid
Narrative
Charisma
Toulmin Model
32. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Litotes
Composition
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
33. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done
Non Sequitur
Qualitative (Stasis)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Example
34. 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.
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Begging the Question
Unrepresentative Sample
Anadiplosis
35. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Ad Hominem
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Tu Quoque
(Argument from) Narrative
36. Reasoning from case to case
Appeal to Ignorance
Corax
Testimony
Analogy
37. Deliberate correction
Composition
Questionable Cause
Correctio
Structural (inherency)
38. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Quantitative (significance)
Checking for Example argument
Situationally flawed
Attitudinal (inherency)
39. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Mixed Metaphor
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Appeal to Ignorance
Non Sequitur
40. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Modus Ponens
Manufactroversy
Unequivocal
41. An argument with true premises and valid form
Sound
Cure
Analogy
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
42. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Claim
Conceding Arguments
Turn
43. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Epanalepsis
Value-Oriented Arguments
Warrant
Manufactroversy
44. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Exergasia
45. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Syllogism
Exergasia
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Anadiplosis
46. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Modus Tollens
Locus of Quantity
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Questionable Analogy
47. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Disassociation of Concepts
Second
Burden of Rejoinder
First
48. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Associated Commonplaces
Ethos
Sophist
Argument
49. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Sign
Stock Issues
Structural (inherency)
Stasis
50. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Gorgias
Ambiguity
Analogy
Valid