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Public Debating
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1. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Blame
Analogy
Cost
Appeal to Ignorance
2. Opposite of Anaphora
Anadiplosis
Correctio
Sign
Epistrophe
3. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Checking for Testimony argument
Disassociation of Concepts
Anadiplosis
4. An argument with true premises and valid form
Quantitative (significance)
False Charge of Fallacy
Sound
Archetypal (Metaphor)
5. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Antithesis
Consistency
Situationally flawed
6. A or B Not A Therefore - B
(Argument from) Narrative
Mixed Metaphor
Tokenism
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
7. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares
Categorical (Syllogism)
Loci of the Preferable
Checking for Analogy argument
Turn
8. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Tokenism
Definitional (Stasis)
Checking for Sign argument
9. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Mixed Metaphor
(Argument of ) General probability
Arguments
Decision Rules
10. Oral performances that have a set format in which two or more speakers take turns making arguments and counterarguments before an audience - Examples: Court room - candidate debates - academic debates
Non Sequitur
Euphimism
Formal Debate
Checking for Analogy argument
11. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Small Sample
Division
Exergasia
12. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Parallelism
Ambiguity
13. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
First
Antithesis
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Unequivocal
14. Focuses on inadequacies or problems in the status quo - must be significant if a change is to be made. Must Have: 1. Quantitative significance: affects lots of people 2. Qualitative significance: is of bad quality
Ill
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Red Herring
Archetypal (Metaphor)
15. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Epistrophe
Anaphora
16. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Special Topoi
Locus of Quality
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Appeal to Authority
17. Opposite of Epistrophe
Anaphora
Division
Syllogism
Tisias
18. Structure repeated
Stock Issues
False Charge of Fallacy
Anadiplosis
Parallelism
19. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Simile
Exergasia
Hasty Generalization
Sophist
20. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Decision Rules
Begging the Question
21. 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.
Attitudinal (inherency)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Unrepresentative Sample
22. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Refutation Strategies
Euphimism
False Charge of Fallacy
23. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Narrative
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Value Hierarchies
Hasty Generalization
24. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Locus of Existence
Narrative
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
25. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
(Special Topoi for) Science
Locus of Existence
Unsound
Definitional (Stasis)
26. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Tokenism
Hasty Generalization
Incrementum
Testimony
27. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Hyperbole
Erotema
Stock Issues
Euphimism
28. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Anaphora
Non Sequitur
Rhetoric
Anadiplosis
29. 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
Gorgias
Division
Hasty Generalization
Claim
30. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Division
Hyperbole
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
31. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Straw Person
Locus of Quantity
Hasty Generalization
Questionable Cause
32. 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'
Mixed Metaphor
Agree on Commonality then refute
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
(Argument from) Testimony
33. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Blame
Locus of Quality
Epanalepsis
Hyperbole
34. Ending repeated
Informal Debate
Epistrophe
Small Sample
Antithesis
35. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Qualitative (Stasis)
Structural (inherency)
Antithesis
Term I/Term II
36. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Litotes
Toulmin Model
Fallacy Fallacy
Analogy
37. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Accident
Sign
Refutation Strategies
Tools of Refutation
38. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
False Dichotomy
Questionable Cause
39. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Appeal to Ignorance
Example
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Anadiplosis
40. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
Good Moral Character
Presumption
Composition
41. 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
Rhetoric
Isocrates
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Correctio
42. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Composition
Conceding Arguments
Direct Refutation
Prolepsis
43. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Syllogism
Unrepresentative Sample
Ill
Red Herring
44. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Arguments
Ad Populum
Second (or) Third
Checking for Analogy argument
45. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Personification
Checking for Testimony argument
Analogy
Equivocation
46. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Unsound
Warrant
(Argument by) Analogy
47. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec
Arguments
Hyperbole
Popular Democracy
(Argument by) Analogy
48. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Attitudinal (inherency)
Second (or) Third
(Fallacy of) Accident
Burden of proof
49. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Plato
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Enthymeme
Tools of Refutation
50. Beginning repeated
Unequivocal
Ad Hominem
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Anaphora