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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Epistrophe
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Mixed Metaphor
Litotes
2. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Quantitative (significance)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Non Sequitur
Fallacies
3. 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
Agree on Commonality then refute
Non Sequitur
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Good Will (Ethos)
4. 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'
Narrative
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Ill
5. Structure repeated
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Refutation Potential
Parallelism
Tu Quoque
6. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Procedural (Stasis)
Quantitative (significance)
Blame
Term I/Term II
7. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Erotema
(Special Topoi for) Science
Popular Democracy
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
8. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Sign
Second
Procedural (Stasis)
Deductive Reasoning
9. 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
Litotes
Locus of Quality
Conceding Arguments
10. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
False Charge of Fallacy
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Special Topoi
Composition
11. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Ill
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Associated Commonplaces
12. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Tu Quoque
Conjectural (Stasis)
Sign
13. Set two things in opposition
Personification
Antithesis
Narrative
Gorgias
14. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Value-Oriented Arguments
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
15. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Blame
Equivocation
Qualitative (Stasis)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
16. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Hyperbole
Arguments
Non Sequitur
17. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Begging the Question
(Argument by) Analogy
Division
Parallelism
18. If A then B B Therefore - A
Small Sample
(Argument from) Sign
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Appeal to Authority
19. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Turn
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Parallelism
(Special Topoi for) Science
20. The inference reasons that what a trustworthy source says is true. The warrant to this argument usually says - 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true'
Qualitative (Stasis)
(Argument from) Testimony
Refutation Strategies
Archetypal (Metaphor)
21. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Turn
Anadiplosis
Stock Issues
Shifting the Burden of Proof
22. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Epanalepsis
Analogy
Categorical (Syllogism)
23. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Metaphor
Status
First
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
24. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Ill
Prolepsis
Sound
Commonplaces
25. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Questionable Cause
Appeal to Ignorance
Unequivocal
Analogy
26. 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
Manufactroversy
Disassociation of Concepts
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Categorical (Syllogism)
27. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Personification
Burden of proof
Refutation Potential
(Special Topoi for) Science
28. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Red Herring
29. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Enthymeme
First
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Anadiplosis
30. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Anaphora
Composition
(Argument from) Testimony
Plato
31. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Claim
Decorum
Begging the Question
(Fallacy of) Accident
32. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Cure
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Deductive Reasoning
Locus of Quantity
33. 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
(Argument by) Analogy
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Small Sample
34. 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.
Categorical (Syllogism)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Appeal to Authority
Refutation Potential
35. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Analogy
Antithesis
Tu Quoque
Metaphor
36. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Cost
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Attitudinal (inherency)
Division
37. If A then B A Therefore B
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Aristotle
Modus Ponens
Sound
38. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Definitional (Stasis)
Burden of proof
39. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Checking for Example argument
Second
Anadiplosis
Tu Quoque
40. Can the sign be found without the thing for which it stands? Is an alternative explanation of the maning of the sign more credible? Are there countering signs that indicate that his one sign is false?
(Fallacy of) Accident
Checking for Sign argument
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Presumption
41. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
Straw Person
(Argument from) Cause
Appeal to Authority
Modus Tollens
42. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Anaphora
Rhetoric
Unrepresentative Sample
Good Moral Character
43. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Locus of Existence
Situationally flawed
Refutation
Narrative
44. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Formal Logic
Locus of Quantity
Cost
Analogy
45. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Quantitative (significance)
Consistency
Example
Associated Commonplaces
46. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Aristotle
Quantitative (significance)
Hasty Generalization
Accident
47. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Procedural (Stasis)
(Argument of ) General probability
Appeal to Authority
Informal Debate
48. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
(Fallacy of) Accident
Ambiguity
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Common Practice (Fallacy)
49. 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?
Qualitative (Stasis)
Tisias
Metaphor
Checking for Analogy argument
50. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'
Parallelism
Non Sequitur
Unsound
Term II (Disassociation Pair)