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1. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Toulmin Model
Refutation Strategies
Mixed Metaphor
Litotes
2. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Popular Democracy
Argument
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Rhetoric
3. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Appeal to Ignorance
Toulmin Model
Consistency
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
4. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Epanalepsis
Anadiplosis
5. 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'
Small Sample
Ad Hominem
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
6. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Refutation
Questionable Analogy
Rhetoric
Tu Quoque
7. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Conjectural (Stasis)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Disassociation of Concepts
8. The list that builds
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
(Argument from) Narrative
Incrementum
Tu Quoque
9. 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
Sound
(Fallacy of) Accident
Categorical (Syllogism)
Non Sequitur
10. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Presumption
Term I/Term II
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Appeal to Ignorance
11. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
(Argument from) Testimony
Cliche
Sound
12. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Division
Grounds (or data)
Parallelism
13. Term with higher (positive) value
Conceding Arguments
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Anaphora
14. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Ill
Hyperbole
Tokenism
Metaphor
15. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Tools of Refutation
Situationally flawed
Accident
Epanalepsis
16. 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
Ad Populum
Rhetoric
Euphimism
Straw Person
17. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Litotes
Mixed Metaphor
Plato
Definitional (Stasis)
18. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Anaphora
Burden of proof
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Manufactroversy
19. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Locus of Quantity
Incrementum
Gorgias
False Dichotomy
20. 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.
Debate Resolutions
Correctio
Mercenary Scientists
Non Sequitur
21. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Categorical (Syllogism)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Enthymeme
Narrative
22. If A then B A Therefore B
Modus Ponens
Definitional (Stasis)
Ad Hominem
Ambiguity
23. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Euphimism
(Argument from) Cause
Stasis
False Charge of Fallacy
24. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Hasty Generalization
Rhetoric
Turn
Composition
25. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Ill
Checking for Sign argument
False Charge of Fallacy
Stock Issues
26. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Exergasia
Conceding Arguments
Anadiplosis
Questionable Cause
27. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
Unrepresentative Sample
Gorgias
Vehicle (and) Tenor
28. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Claim
Disassociation of Concepts
Hyperbole
29. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Syllogism
(Argument from) Cause
Hyperbole
Deductive Reasoning
30. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Checking for Analogy argument
Begging the Question
Example
Procedural (Stasis)
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'
Analogy
Mixed Metaphor
Appeal to Authority
Ad Hominem
32. An argument with true premises and valid form
Conceding Arguments
Sophist
Ill
Sound
33. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Anaphora
Erotema
Commonplaces
Accident
34. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Unequivocal
Parallelism
Definitional (Stasis)
Deductive Reasoning
35. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
False Dichotomy
Protagoras
Hyperbole
Refutation
36. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)
Tools of Refutation
Tisias
Composition
Fallacy Fallacy
37. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Analogy
Hyperbole
Ill
Stock Issues
38. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Appeal to Ignorance
Popular Democracy
Special Topoi
39. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Value-Oriented Arguments
Unrepresentative Sample
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
40. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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41. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Rhetoric
Quantitative (significance)
Mercenary Scientists
Isocrates
42. Term with lower (negative) value
Locus of Quantity
Appeal to Authority
Blame
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
43. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Unequivocal
Simile
Burden of Rejoinder
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
44. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Disassociation of Concepts
Exergasia
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Euphimism
45. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Second (or) Third
Commonplaces
Epanalepsis
Personification
46. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Sound
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
47. Beginning repeated
Qualitative (Stasis)
Cliche
Anaphora
Associated Commonplaces
48. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
(Argument from) Cause
Rhetoric
Quantitative (significance)
Refutation
49. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Categorical (Syllogism)
Claim
Intelligence
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
50. 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
Metaphor
Antithesis
Quantity Quality Essence Existent