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1. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Unequivocal
Correctio
2. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Hyperbole
Formal Logic
Testimony
Commonplaces
3. 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?
Tokenism
Checking for Sign argument
Intelligence
Second
4. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'
(Argument from) Sign
Antithesis
Epistrophe
Equivocation
5. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Tu Quoque
Litotes
Questionable Cause
Commonplaces
6. beginning repeated at ending
(Argument from) Narrative
Epanalepsis
Straw Person
Division
7. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Fallacies
(Argument from) Cause
Unsound
Formal Logic
8. 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
Rhetoric
Categorical (Syllogism)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Argument
9. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Enthymeme
(Argument by) Analogy
10. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Gorgias
Attitudinal (inherency)
Epistrophe
Stock Issues
11. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Special Topoi
Appeal to Ignorance
Locus of Quantity
False Charge of Fallacy
12. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Questionable Cause
(Special Topoi for) Science
(Fallacy of) Accident
Tisias
13. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Composition
Incrementum
Tu Quoque
Special Topoi
14. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Non Sequitur
Categorical (Syllogism)
Good Will (Ethos)
Modus Ponens
15. If A then B B Therefore - A
Locus of Quantity
Sound
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Incrementum
16. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Tisias
Second
Claim
17. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Metaphor
Ill
Arguments
Status
18. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Modus Ponens
Stock Issues
Ad Populum
Exergasia
19. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Anaphora
Categorical (Syllogism)
Parallelism
Tools of Refutation
20. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Questionable Analogy
Sophist
Non Sequitur
Anaphora
21. 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'
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Conjectural (Stasis)
Hasty Generalization
Parallelism
22. Oppostite of Litotes
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Hyperbole
(Argument by) Example
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
23. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
Parallelism
Mercenary Scientists
Stock Issues
24. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Status
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Locus of Essence
Decorum
25. After this - therefore on account of this
Mercenary Scientists
Anaphora
Appeal to Authority
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
26. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Cure
Grounds (or data)
Checking for Narrative argument
Personification
27. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population
Erotema
Composition
Hyperbole
Small Sample
28. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Gorgias
Checking for Narrative argument
Example
Good Moral Character
29. A or B Not A Therefore - B
(Special Topoi for) Science
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
30. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Hasty Generalization
Checking for Narrative argument
Personification
31. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.
Straw Person
Plato
Rhetoric
Turn
32. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Checking for Cause argement
Term I/Term II
Corax
Division
33. 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
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Presumption
Formal Debate
Sign
34. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Anaphora
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Epanalepsis
35. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Fallacies
Stock Issues
Structural (inherency)
Exergasia
36. 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'
Formal Debate
Burden of proof
(Argument from) Cause
Gorgias
37. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Small Sample
Protagoras
Metaphor
Locus of Quality
38. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Protagoras
Categorical (Syllogism)
Small Sample
Begging the Question
39. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Arguments
Anaphora
40. Exaggeration
Good Will (Ethos)
Hyperbole
Burden of Rejoinder
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
41. 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'
First
Definitional (Stasis)
(Argument from) Narrative
Ad Hominem
42. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Emotionally Charged (Language)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
First
Plato
43. Ask a rhetorical question
Ill
Mercenary Scientists
Hyperbole
Erotema
44. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Tokenism
Good Will (Ethos)
Begging the Question
Rhetoric
45. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Metaphor
Questionable Cause
Second (or) Third
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
46. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Refutation Strategies
Mercenary Scientists
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Cure
47. Ideas repeated
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Exergasia
Mercenary Scientists
Sign
48. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Popular Democracy
Special Topoi
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
49. Structure repeated
Definitional (Stasis)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Parallelism
Archetypal (Metaphor)
50. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Unequivocal
Gorgias
Deductive Reasoning
Disassociation of Concepts