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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Ad Populum
Refutation
Division
Non Sequitur
2. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Epistrophe
Composition
Manufactroversy
Questionable Analogy
3. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Correctio
Aristotle
Anaphora
4. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Decorum
Questionable Cause
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Metaphor
5. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
False Dichotomy
(Fallacy of) Accident
Non Sequitur
Litotes
6. 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
Equivocation
Exergasia
Agree on Commonality then refute
Cliche
7. beginning repeated at ending
Narrative
Vehicle (and) Tenor
(Argument from) Testimony
Epanalepsis
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
Formal Logic
Categorical (Syllogism)
(Fallacy of) Accident
Modus Tollens
9. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Unsound
Locus of Quantity
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
10. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Anadiplosis
Presumption
Deductive Reasoning
(Argument of ) General probability
11. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Disassociation of Concepts
Sign
(Argument by) Analogy
Structural (inherency)
12. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Unequivocal
Fallacy Fallacy
Turn
Composition
13. The list that builds
Litotes
Procedural (Stasis)
Incrementum
Non Sequitur
14. If A then B B Therefore - A
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Good Will (Ethos)
Formal Debate
15. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Prolepsis
Anadiplosis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
16. 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'
Epistrophe
Metaphor
Epistrophe
(Argument from) Narrative
17. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Commonplaces
Blame
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Locus of Essence
18. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Tu Quoque
Unequivocal
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Stock Issues
19. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Litotes
Charisma
Tools of Refutation
Analogy
20. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Ad Populum
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Anadiplosis
Locus of Quantity
21. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Second
Special Topoi
Refutation Strategies
22. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Syllogism
Testimony
Straw Person
Parallelism
23. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Decision Rules
Checking for Example argument
False Dichotomy
24. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Red Herring
Agree on Commonality then refute
Checking for Narrative argument
Erotema
25. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Direct Refutation
Commonplaces
Status
(Argument of ) General probability
26. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Erotema
False Dichotomy
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Tools of Refutation
27. 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
Metaphor
Debate Resolutions
Example
Rhetoric
28. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Isocrates
Parallelism
Cost
29. Reasoning from case to case
Gorgias
Analogy
Burden of proof
First
30. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Litotes
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Grounds (or data)
Ethos
31. 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?
Agree on Commonality then refute
Metaphor
Checking for Analogy argument
Formal Logic
32. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Structural (inherency)
Modus Ponens
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
33. Circular Reasoning
Begging the Question
Example
Non Sequitur
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
34. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Checking for Cause argement
Litotes
Aristotle
Sign
35. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
(Argument from) Sign
Stock Issues
Turn
Parallelism
36. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Stock Issues
Formal Debate
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Consistency
37. Opposite of Hyperbole
Cure
Conjectural (Stasis)
Litotes
Rhetoric
38. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Epanalepsis
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Unequivocal
Metaphor
39. Opposite of Anaphora
Anaphora
Mixed Metaphor
Argument
Epistrophe
40. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Intelligence
(Argument of ) General probability
Ambiguity
Analogy
41. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Straw Person
Plato
Division
Good Will (Ethos)
42. A manufactured controversy that is motivated by profit or extreme ideology to intentionally create confusion in the public about an issue of scientific fact that is not in dispute by the scientific community. Used to stop debate at the conjectural le
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Manufactroversy
Consistency
Attitudinal (inherency)
43. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Rhetoric
Burden of proof
(Argument from) Narrative
Rhetoric
44. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Conceding Arguments
Situationally flawed
Erotema
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
45. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Burden of proof
Rhetoric
Deductive Reasoning
46. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Decorum
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Simile
Popular Democracy
47. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Categorical (Syllogism)
Correctio
Burden of proof
Arguments
48. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Anadiplosis
Checking for Testimony argument
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Accident
49. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Epistrophe
First
Unsound
50. 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
Appeal to Authority
Debate Resolutions
Formal Debate
Emotionally Charged (Language)