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1. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Incrementum
Refutation Strategies
Locus of Quantity
Antithesis
2. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Rhetoric
Locus of Existence
Loci of the Preferable
3. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Non Sequitur
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Informal Debate
Vehicle (and) Tenor
4. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Division
Enthymeme
Aristotle
5. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Analogy
Checking for Testimony argument
Value-Oriented Arguments
Corax
6. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Epistrophe
Ad Hominem
Intelligence
Hyperbole
7. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
Tu Quoque
Procedural (Stasis)
8. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Questionable Analogy
Grounds (or data)
Antithesis
Fallacy Fallacy
9. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Small Sample
Agree on Commonality then refute
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
10. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Composition
Special Topoi
Analogy
11. The inference moves from specific to general or from general to specific. The warrant to this argument usually reads 'what is true in this case is true in general' or 'what is true in general is true in this case'
Division
Blame
Narrative
(Argument by) Example
12. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Begging the Question
Division
Charisma
Anaphora
13. Opposite of anadiplosis
Epistrophe
(Argument by) Analogy
Hyperbole
Epanalepsis
14. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Testimony
Syllogism
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
(Argument by) Example
15. 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?
Checking for Testimony argument
Composition
Toulmin Model
Decision Rules
16. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
False Charge of Fallacy
Erotema
Tu Quoque
Metaphor
17. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Tokenism
Ill
Burden of Rejoinder
Locus of Quantity
18. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Epistrophe
Questionable Analogy
Non Sequitur
Ill
19. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument of ) General probability
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Situationally flawed
20. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Epanalepsis
Tokenism
Blame
Value-Oriented Arguments
21. An argument that follows proper logical form
Agree on Commonality then refute
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Valid
(Fallacy of) Accident
22. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Equivocation
Formal Debate
Structural (inherency)
Tokenism
23. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Manufactroversy
Burden of proof
Exergasia
Cliche
24. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Anaphora
Refutation Potential
Protagoras
Checking for Example argument
25. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Isocrates
(Argument by) Example
Conjectural (Stasis)
Stasis
26. Reasoning from case to case
First
Analogy
Tu Quoque
Argument
27. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Anaphora
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Non Sequitur
Blame
28. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Syllogism
Mercenary Scientists
Erotema
Aristotle
29. 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?
Aristotle
Checking for Example argument
Direct Refutation
Locus of Quantity
30. Opposite of Epanalepsis
(Special Topoi for) Science
Anadiplosis
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Refutation Potential
31. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Ad Populum
Locus of Existence
Fallacies
32. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Begging the Question
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
(Argument from) Narrative
Red Herring
33. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Conceding Arguments
Commonplaces
Decorum
Value Hierarchies
34. 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
Ethos
Categorical (Syllogism)
Refutation
Hyperbole
35. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.
Non Sequitur
Debate Resolutions
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
(Fallacy of) Accident
36. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Corax
Associated Commonplaces
Euphimism
Tools of Refutation
37. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true
Sophist
Appeal to Ignorance
Unrepresentative Sample
Shifting the Burden of Proof
38. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
(Argument from) Testimony
Gorgias
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Commonplaces
39. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Epistrophe
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Questionable Cause
Toulmin Model
40. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Metaphor
Anadiplosis
Agree on Commonality then refute
Argument
41. 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)
(Argument by) Example
(Argument from) Narrative
Syllogism
Fallacy Fallacy
42. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Non Sequitur
Arguments
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Composition
43. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Locus of Existence
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Sign
Hasty Generalization
44. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Begging the Question
Division
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
(Special Topoi for) Science
45. Does one thing really cause the other - or are they merely correlated? Is there another larger cause or series of causes that better explains the effect?
Checking for Example argument
Antithesis
Checking for Cause argement
Second
46. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Burden of proof
Ethos
Corax
Epistrophe
47. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Cliche
Formal Logic
Consistency
Hyperbole
48. Ask a rhetorical question
Formal Logic
Cost
Arguments
Erotema
49. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Incrementum
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Blame
50. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
Sound
Manufactroversy
Correctio