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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Division
Structural (inherency)
Checking for Narrative argument
Enthymeme
2. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Epistrophe
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Hasty Generalization
3. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Analogy
Plato
Metaphor
Mixed Metaphor
4. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Rhetoric
Straw Person
False Dichotomy
Second
5. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Ill
Second (or) Third
Checking for Example argument
Equivocation
6. 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.
(Argument from) Narrative
Corax
Unrepresentative Sample
Litotes
7. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true
Formal Logic
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Good Moral Character
Ad Hominem
8. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Begging the Question
Intelligence
Equivocation
Rhetoric
9. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Stock Issues
Tisias
Hyperbole
Checking for Example argument
10. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Aristotle
Enthymeme
Ambiguity
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
11. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Sound
Categorical (Syllogism)
Consistency
12. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Agree on Commonality then refute
Associated Commonplaces
Accident
13. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Ill
Conceding Arguments
Checking for Sign argument
Informal Debate
14. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Arguments
Tisias
(Fallacy of) Accident
Straw Person
15. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Appeal to Authority
Incrementum
Attitudinal (inherency)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
16. Opposite of Anaphora
Simile
Agree on Commonality then refute
Epistrophe
Rhetoric
17. 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'
Narrative
(Argument by) Example
Ill
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
18. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Hyperbole
Equivocation
Enthymeme
Arguments
19. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Fallacies
Conceding Arguments
Isocrates
Anaphora
20. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Straw Person
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Charisma
Metaphor
21. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Cost
(Argument from) Narrative
Analogy
22. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Sign
Checking for Narrative argument
Situationally flawed
Ill
23. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Sound
Cliche
Personification
Blame
24. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Status
Protagoras
Common Practice (Fallacy)
25. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Begging the Question
Parallelism
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Attitudinal (inherency)
26. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Tisias
Sign
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
27. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Commonplaces
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Simile
Epanalepsis
28. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Epistrophe
Consistency
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
(Argument of ) General probability
29. 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.
Straw Person
(Argument by) Example
Prolepsis
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
30. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Antithesis
Fallacy Fallacy
31. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Anaphora
Corax
Definitional (Stasis)
Incrementum
32. 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'
(Argument from) Cause
Checking for Example argument
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
33. An argument with true premises and valid form
Sound
Questionable Analogy
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Unsound
34. Understatement
Litotes
Grounds (or data)
(Argument from) Sign
Appeal to Authority
35. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Litotes
Good Moral Character
36. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Red Herring
Mercenary Scientists
(Argument from) Narrative
Attitudinal (inherency)
37. 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'
Special Topoi
Anadiplosis
Fallacies
(Argument from) Sign
38. Exaggeration
Epistrophe
Hyperbole
Categorical (Syllogism)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
39. 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'
(Argument from) Testimony
Accident
Checking for Analogy argument
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
40. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Formal Logic
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument from) Cause
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
41. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Unsound
Appeal to Ignorance
Personification
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
42. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Formal Logic
Equivocation
Questionable Cause
Agree on Commonality then refute
43. 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
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Claim
Warrant
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
44. '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?
Tools of Refutation
Incrementum
Example
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
45. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Categorical (Syllogism)
Refutation Strategies
Rhetoric
First
46. Oppostite of Litotes
Hyperbole
Epistrophe
Anadiplosis
Burden of Rejoinder
47. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Division
Mercenary Scientists
Ad Hominem
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
48. 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?
Checking for Cause argement
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Personification
Appeal to Ignorance
49. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Epanalepsis
Status
Anaphora
50. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Second (or) Third
Mixed Metaphor
Non Sequitur
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial