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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change






2. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)






3. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






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






5. What vehicles and tenors share






6. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?






7. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






8. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?






9. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






10. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience






11. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth






12. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






13. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)






14. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal






15. Oppostite of Litotes






16. Does one thing really cause the other - or are they merely correlated? Is there another larger cause or series of causes that better explains the effect?






17. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____






18. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?






19. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






20. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






21. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members






22. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






23. 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?






24. Exaggeration






25. 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.






26. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive






27. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C






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






29. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope






30. 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






31. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?






32. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






33. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible






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






35. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective






36. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)






37. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument






38. 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.






39. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)






40. Reasoning from case to case






41. 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






42. An argument that follows proper logical form






43. The list that builds






44. The inference moves from specific to general or from general to specific. The warrant to this argument usually reads 'what is true in this case is true in general' or 'what is true in general is true in this case'






45. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place






46. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)






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






48. Opposite of Epistrophe






49. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?






50. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?