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1. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Sign
Commonplaces
Tisias
Locus of Essence
2. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
False Charge of Fallacy
Antithesis
Aristotle
3. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Direct Refutation
Correctio
False Dichotomy
4. 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
Categorical (Syllogism)
(Argument from) Testimony
Cost
Checking for Cause argement
5. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Litotes
Hyperbole
Questionable Analogy
Composition
6. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Parallelism
Popular Democracy
Antithesis
7. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Hasty Generalization
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Agree on Commonality then refute
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
8. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Decision Rules
Epanalepsis
9. Ending repeated
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Litotes
Epistrophe
Tu Quoque
10. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?
Status
Example
Second
Sign
11. 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'
Conceding Arguments
(Argument from) Cause
Prolepsis
(Fallacy of) Accident
12. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Metaphor
Corax
Blame
False Charge of Fallacy
13. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Hyperbole
Exergasia
Conceding Arguments
Anadiplosis
14. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Exergasia
Small Sample
Consistency
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
15. Opposite of Anaphora
Red Herring
Epistrophe
Blame
Accident
16. An argument with true premises and valid form
Sound
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Status
Structural (inherency)
17. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Checking for Testimony argument
Hyperbole
Non Sequitur
18. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Deductive Reasoning
Decorum
Appeal to Authority
19. 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
Stasis
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Hasty Generalization
Litotes
20. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Checking for Testimony argument
Anadiplosis
21. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Debate Resolutions
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Blame
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
22. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Commonplaces
Sophist
Anaphora
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
23. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Ad Hominem
(Argument by) Analogy
Categorical (Syllogism)
24. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Deductive Reasoning
Parallelism
Checking for Narrative argument
Gorgias
25. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Valid
Burden of Rejoinder
Status
Accident
26. Term with lower (negative) value
Ambiguity
Metaphor
Agree on Commonality then refute
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
27. What vehicles and tenors share
Decision Rules
Associated Commonplaces
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument from) Narrative
28. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Unrepresentative Sample
Formal Logic
Rhetoric
29. 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.
Hyperbole
Debate Resolutions
Checking for Cause argement
Toulmin Model
30. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Ad Populum
Erotema
Checking for Example argument
Unequivocal
31. Circular Reasoning
Decorum
Cliche
Begging the Question
Conjectural (Stasis)
32. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Parallelism
Appeal to Authority
Exergasia
33. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Second (or) Third
Manufactroversy
Formal Logic
Associated Commonplaces
34. If A then B B Therefore - A
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Erotema
Accident
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
35. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Stasis
Simile
Checking for Example argument
Fallacy Fallacy
36. 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'
Tu Quoque
Disassociation of Concepts
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
37. Understatement
Conjectural (Stasis)
Ad Populum
Litotes
Categorical (Syllogism)
38. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Good Moral Character
Checking for Analogy argument
Antithesis
Simile
39. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
(Argument from) Testimony
Modus Tollens
Anadiplosis
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
40. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Checking for Narrative argument
Status
Prolepsis
Questionable Cause
41. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Appeal to Ignorance
Burden of proof
Litotes
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
42. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Associated Commonplaces
Mixed Metaphor
(Fallacy of) Accident
Toulmin Model
43. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Argument
Narrative
Locus of Existence
44. Opposite of Epistrophe
Anaphora
Ill
Consistency
Good Will (Ethos)
45. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Rhetoric
Checking for Narrative argument
Common Practice (Fallacy)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
46. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
(Argument by) Analogy
Anadiplosis
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
47. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Formal Logic
Refutation
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Litotes
48. 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'
Rhetoric
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Correctio
Composition
49. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Equivocation
Debate Resolutions
Locus of Existence
Erotema
50. 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
Epanalepsis
Rhetoric
Hyperbole
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)