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Public Debating
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1. 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.
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Locus of Existence
Debate Resolutions
Quantitative (significance)
2. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Parallelism
(Argument from) Testimony
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
(Special Topoi for) Science
3. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Checking for Sign argument
Conjectural (Stasis)
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Appeal to Ignorance
4. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Division
Intelligence
Loci of the Preferable
Term I/Term II
5. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Ad Hominem
Locus of Quality
Debate Resolutions
First
6. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Euphimism
Hyperbole
Begging the Question
7. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
(Fallacy of) Accident
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Fallacies
(Argument from) Sign
8. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Burden of Rejoinder
Decision Rules
Testimony
(Argument from) Narrative
9. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Gorgias
Ad Hominem
Modus Ponens
Composition
10. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Special Topoi
False Charge of Fallacy
Rhetoric
11. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Unequivocal
Cliche
Epistrophe
Fallacies
12. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Metaphor
Intelligence
Checking for Analogy argument
Rhetoric
13. Opposite of anadiplosis
Epanalepsis
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Epistrophe
Antithesis
14. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Sound
Burden of Rejoinder
Anadiplosis
Enthymeme
15. If A then B B Therefore - A
Burden of proof
Deductive Reasoning
Structural (inherency)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
16. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo
Mixed Metaphor
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Begging the Question
Decision Rules
17. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Categorical (Syllogism)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Presumption
Procedural (Stasis)
18. Structure repeated
Plato
Narrative
Charisma
Parallelism
19. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Stock Issues
Consistency
Equivocation
Locus of Quality
20. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Correctio
Accident
Litotes
Good Moral Character
21. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Structural (inherency)
Fallacy Fallacy
Ambiguity
22. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Arguments
Tisias
Tu Quoque
Testimony
23. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Turn
Agree on Commonality then refute
24. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Popular Democracy
Epanalepsis
Appeal to Ignorance
Ill
25. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
(Argument from) Testimony
Refutation
Litotes
Corax
26. Set two things in opposition
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Antithesis
27. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Mixed Metaphor
Division
Turn
Narrative
28. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Rhetoric
Simile
Deductive Reasoning
Locus of Quality
29. Term with lower (negative) value
Anaphora
Arguments
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Incrementum
30. Opposite of Anaphora
(Argument from) Cause
Agree on Commonality then refute
Epistrophe
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
31. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'
Litotes
Burden of proof
Ad Hominem
Antithesis
32. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Value-Oriented Arguments
(Argument by) Analogy
Stock Issues
Non Sequitur
33. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Unsound
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Anaphora
Structural (inherency)
34. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
Unsound
Checking for Example argument
Direct Refutation
35. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Refutation Strategies
Equivocation
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
36. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Tisias
Composition
Blame
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
37. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Testimony argument
Rhetoric
Checking for Narrative argument
Value-Oriented Arguments
38. 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
Fallacy Fallacy
Ad Populum
Categorical (Syllogism)
(Argument by) Analogy
39. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Value-Oriented Arguments
Checking for Narrative argument
(Argument from) Sign
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
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
Litotes
Attitudinal (inherency)
Unequivocal
Loci of the Preferable
41. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Plato
Division
Value Hierarchies
Anaphora
42. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Epanalepsis
Modus Ponens
43. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Aristotle
Term I/Term II
(Argument from) Sign
Sophist
44. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Begging the Question
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Incrementum
45. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Formal Debate
Parallelism
Checking for Narrative argument
Plato
46. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Procedural (Stasis)
Unrepresentative Sample
(Special Topoi for) Science
Metaphor
47. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Epistrophe
Cure
Antithesis
48. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Claim
Mixed Metaphor
Stasis
Turn
49. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
False Charge of Fallacy
Epistrophe
Questionable Cause
50. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Litotes
Unequivocal