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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Understatement






2. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:






3. After this - therefore on account of this






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






5. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






6. Opposite of Epanalepsis






7. 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






8. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






9. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






10. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______






11. If A then B B Therefore - A






12. An argument that follows proper logical form






13. 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






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






15. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






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






17. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins






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






19. Oral performances that have a set format in which two or more speakers take turns making arguments and counterarguments before an audience - Examples: Court room - candidate debates - academic debates






20. Who developed the argument from general probability?






21. Deliberate correction






22. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?






23. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?






24. 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






25. Exaggeration






26. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.






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






28. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.






29. Opposite of Anaphora






30. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument






31. Ideas repeated






32. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')






33. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C






34. 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.






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






36. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






37. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?






38. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones






39. Value Hierarchy Visualization






40. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others






41. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






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






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. Metaphors use ____ and ____






45. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






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






47. 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






48. 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'






49. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.






50. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses