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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.






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






3. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?






4. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?






5. Deliberate correction






6. Structure repeated






7. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.






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






9. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?






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






11. An argument with true premises and valid form






12. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






13. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable






14. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






15. Ask a rhetorical question






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






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






18. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides






19. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives






20. If A then B Not A Therefore not B






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






22. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties






23. The inference reasons that what a trustworthy source says is true. The warrant to this argument usually says - 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true'






24. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity






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






26. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue






27. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






28. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings






29. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?






30. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.






31. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






32. 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'






33. 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.






34. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning






35. 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






36. Opposite of Anaphora






37. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)






38. beginning repeated at ending






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






40. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members






41. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____

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42. Who developed the argument from general probability?






43. 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.






44. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.






45. 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'






46. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)






47. Ideas repeated






48. Opposite of Epistrophe






49. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.






50. After this - therefore on account of this






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