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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Conjectural (Stasis)
Parallelism
Litotes
Burden of proof
2. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo
Cliche
Decision Rules
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Unequivocal
3. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Formal Logic
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Straw Person
4. 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?
Checking for Testimony argument
Example
Epistrophe
Exergasia
5. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Epistrophe
(Argument by) Analogy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Locus of Quality
6. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Modus Tollens
Locus of Essence
(Fallacy of) Accident
Procedural (Stasis)
7. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Questionable Analogy
(Argument from) Sign
Conceding Arguments
8. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Questionable Cause
Structural (inherency)
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Claim
9. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Definitional (Stasis)
Anadiplosis
Sign
Value Hierarchies
10. 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
(Argument from) Cause
Situationally flawed
Questionable Analogy
Litotes
11. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Anaphora
Cost
Analogy
Prolepsis
12. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Valid
Syllogism
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
(Argument from) Testimony
13. 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
Composition
Popular Democracy
Rhetoric
(Fallacy of) Accident
14. 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
Syllogism
Small Sample
Narrative
Quantitative (significance)
15. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Correctio
Appeal to Authority
Metaphor
Second (or) Third
16. 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.
Aristotle
Disassociation of Concepts
Composition
Checking for Cause argement
17. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Cliche
Popular Democracy
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Anadiplosis
18. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Questionable Analogy
Division
Isocrates
19. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Stock Issues
Mixed Metaphor
Analogy
Division
20. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Accident
Ethos
Procedural (Stasis)
Begging the Question
21. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Claim
Gorgias
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Epanalepsis
22. 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'
Value-Oriented Arguments
Debate Resolutions
Second
Tu Quoque
23. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Epanalepsis
Exergasia
Hasty Generalization
Composition
24. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
Hyperbole
Conceding Arguments
Checking for Testimony argument
25. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Locus of Quality
Sophist
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
26. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Red Herring
Antithesis
Charisma
Tu Quoque
27. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Quantitative (significance)
Commonplaces
Appeal to Authority
28. 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?
Checking for Analogy argument
Fallacies
Appeal to Ignorance
Isocrates
29. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Analogy
Syllogism
Good Will (Ethos)
Qualitative (Stasis)
30. Structure repeated
Turn
Procedural (Stasis)
Prolepsis
Parallelism
31. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Narrative
Fallacies
Sophist
Second (or) Third
32. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Equivocation
Hyperbole
False Charge of Fallacy
Value Hierarchies
33. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Checking for Analogy argument
Stasis
Good Moral Character
34. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Cure
Ambiguity
Gorgias
Vehicle (and) Tenor
35. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Isocrates
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Direct Refutation
36. Can the sign be found without the thing for which it stands? Is an alternative explanation of the maning of the sign more credible? Are there countering signs that indicate that his one sign is false?
Locus of Essence
Procedural (Stasis)
Checking for Sign argument
Mixed Metaphor
37. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Rhetoric
Hasty Generalization
Deductive Reasoning
38. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Checking for Example argument
Conjectural (Stasis)
Ill
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
39. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Erotema
Decorum
Rhetoric
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
40. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Cliche
Sophist
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Refutation
41. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Commonplaces
Grounds (or data)
Antithesis
Qualitative (Stasis)
42. 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
Decision Rules
Manufactroversy
Personification
Hasty Generalization
43. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Burden of Rejoinder
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Parallelism
44. 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.
Hasty Generalization
Parallelism
Straw Person
Checking for Cause argement
45. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Associated Commonplaces
Enthymeme
Quantitative (significance)
Manufactroversy
46. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Correctio
Deductive Reasoning
Rhetoric
Qualitative (Stasis)
47. Circular Reasoning
Checking for Example argument
Formal Logic
Begging the Question
Archetypal (Metaphor)
48. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Qualitative (Stasis)
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Special Topoi
Formal Logic
49. 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
Sign
Hyperbole
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Anadiplosis
50. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Correctio
Division
Rhetoric
Situationally flawed