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Public Debating
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soft-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Good Moral Character
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Modus Tollens
2. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Composition
Enthymeme
Ad Hominem
Consistency
3. beginning repeated at ending
Value Hierarchies
Unrepresentative Sample
Locus of Existence
Epanalepsis
4. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
(Argument by) Example
Exergasia
Modus Tollens
5. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Anadiplosis
Toulmin Model
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Informal Debate
6. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
False Charge of Fallacy
Anadiplosis
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Blame
7. 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'
Anadiplosis
(Argument from) Narrative
Litotes
Exergasia
8. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Anaphora
Rhetoric
9. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)
Claim
Fallacy Fallacy
Sound
Metaphor
10. 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)
Mercenary Scientists
Quantitative (significance)
Anaphora
11. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Tisias
Refutation Strategies
Burden of Rejoinder
Composition
12. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Testimony
Hyperbole
Begging the Question
13. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?
Parallelism
Checking for Testimony argument
Analogy
Corax
14. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Appeal to Authority
Sign
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Composition
15. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Metaphor
Begging the Question
Epistrophe
16. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Second (or) Third
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Non Sequitur
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
17. Structure repeated
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Example
Burden of proof
Parallelism
18. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Turn
Associated Commonplaces
Value-Oriented Arguments
19. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Locus of Existence
False Dichotomy
Epanalepsis
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
20. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Epistrophe
Appeal to Ignorance
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Ad Populum
21. Opposite of Hyperbole
Claim
Litotes
Direct Refutation
Shifting the Burden of Proof
22. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Composition
Unequivocal
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Epanalepsis
23. 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
Anaphora
Rhetoric
Accident
Informal Debate
24. Ask a rhetorical question
Rhetoric
Personification
Erotema
Composition
25. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Locus of Essence
Epanalepsis
Refutation Strategies
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
26. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Cure
Division
Disassociation of Concepts
Anaphora
27. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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28. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Isocrates
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Locus of Quality
Metaphor
29. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
Debate Resolutions
Checking for Analogy argument
Tokenism
Burden of Rejoinder
30. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Burden of Rejoinder
Ill
Anadiplosis
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
31. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Modus Ponens
Rhetoric
Ad Hominem
Anadiplosis
32. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Disassociation of Concepts
Good Moral Character
Decision Rules
33. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Qualitative (Stasis)
Intelligence
Burden of proof
34. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Mercenary Scientists
Locus of Quantity
Antithesis
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
35. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Locus of Quality
Personification
36. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Categorical (Syllogism)
Epanalepsis
False Dichotomy
Accident
37. 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.
Fallacies
Litotes
(Argument of ) General probability
Appeal to Authority
38. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Epanalepsis
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Locus of Quality
Vehicle (and) Tenor
39. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Argument
Sign
Rhetoric
Personification
40. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares
Loci of the Preferable
Equivocation
Unrepresentative Sample
Epanalepsis
41. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Tisias
Anaphora
Questionable Analogy
Litotes
42. Understatement
Litotes
(Argument from) Cause
Burden of proof
Tools of Refutation
43. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Ad Populum
Cure
Epanalepsis
Appeal to Authority
44. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Value Hierarchies
Anaphora
Aristotle
Cost
45. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Epistrophe
First
Refutation
46. Appeals from the character of the speaker
(Argument of ) General probability
(Argument by) Example
Ethos
Parallelism
47. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Modus Tollens
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Claim
48. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Rhetoric
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Begging the Question
Enthymeme
49. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Erotema
Simile
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Loci of the Preferable
50. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Litotes
Cliche
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Charisma