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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court






2. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






3. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






4. Metaphors use ____ and ____






5. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'






6. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?






7. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)






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






9. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






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






11. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts






12. Reasoning from case to case






13. 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






14. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)






15. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others






16. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






17. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






18. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?






19. Circular Reasoning






20. 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.






21. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.






22. 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






23. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones






24. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.






25. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost






26. The list that builds






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

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28. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






29. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective






30. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






31. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?






32. Understatement






33. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.






34. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?






35. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing






36. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal






37. 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






38. Value Hierarchy Visualization






39. Opposite of Anaphora






40. 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






41. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?






42. Who developed the argument from general probability?






43. Opposite of anadiplosis






44. An argument with true premises and valid form






45. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population






46. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts






47. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'






48. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest






49. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____






50. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place