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Public Debating
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1. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Cure
Informal Debate
Antithesis
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
2. 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.
Mixed Metaphor
Appeal to Authority
Straw Person
Locus of Essence
3. Deliberate correction
Formal Debate
Burden of proof
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Correctio
4. 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
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Arguments
Hasty Generalization
Unequivocal
5. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Appeal to Ignorance
Claim
Non Sequitur
Decorum
6. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Tu Quoque
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
7. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Accident
Protagoras
8. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Composition
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Anaphora
9. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Appeal to Ignorance
Unequivocal
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Appeal to Ignorance
10. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Stasis
Second (or) Third
Fallacy Fallacy
Locus of Quantity
11. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Grounds (or data)
Manufactroversy
Anaphora
12. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Ethos
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Rhetoric
13. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Non Sequitur
Metaphor
Refutation Strategies
Attitudinal (inherency)
14. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Ill
Informal Debate
Correctio
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
15. 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'
Tu Quoque
Associated Commonplaces
Formal Logic
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
16. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Testimony
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Ethos
17. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'
Epistrophe
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Decorum
(Argument from) Narrative
18. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Epistrophe
Good Will (Ethos)
Accident
Sound
19. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Anaphora
Appeal to Authority
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Fallacy Fallacy
20. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Manufactroversy
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
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.
Categorical (Syllogism)
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Unrepresentative Sample
Procedural (Stasis)
22. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Anadiplosis
Value-Oriented Arguments
Cliche
Burden of proof
23. Oppostite of Litotes
Hyperbole
Epanalepsis
Mercenary Scientists
Example
24. An argument with true premises and valid form
Sound
Hasty Generalization
Modus Tollens
Mercenary Scientists
25. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Modus Tollens
Sign
(Special Topoi for) Science
Definitional (Stasis)
26. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Correctio
Conceding Arguments
Appeal to Authority
27. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Checking for Example argument
Checking for Sign argument
Direct Refutation
Rhetoric
28. 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
Sign
Ill
Refutation Strategies
Anaphora
29. Opposite of Epistrophe
Anaphora
(Argument from) Testimony
Term I/Term II
Tools of Refutation
30. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Valid
Appeal to Ignorance
Erotema
Rhetoric
31. 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?
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Toulmin Model
Quantitative (significance)
Checking for Cause argement
32. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Non Sequitur
First
Modus Ponens
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
33. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals
Tokenism
Agree on Commonality then refute
Epanalepsis
Attitudinal (inherency)
34. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Special Topoi
(Argument from) Sign
Equivocation
Composition
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
Locus of Quantity
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Mixed Metaphor
Rhetoric
36. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Questionable Cause
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Turn
37. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Claim
(Argument by) Analogy
Presumption
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
38. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Debate Resolutions
Correctio
Corax
Simile
39. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Anaphora
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Formal Logic
Argument
40. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
Sign
Anaphora
Categorical (Syllogism)
41. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Sound
Erotema
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Unequivocal
42. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Personification
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Checking for Example argument
Burden of proof
43. A manufactured controversy that is motivated by profit or extreme ideology to intentionally create confusion in the public about an issue of scientific fact that is not in dispute by the scientific community. Used to stop debate at the conjectural le
Claim
Appeal to Authority
Manufactroversy
Direct Refutation
44. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Checking for Example argument
Presumption
Parallelism
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
45. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Sign
Intelligence
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
46. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Manufactroversy
Direct Refutation
Blame
Exergasia
47. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Intelligence
Begging the Question
Stasis
Epanalepsis
48. Exaggeration
Charisma
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Division
Hyperbole
49. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.
Small Sample
Valid
Modus Tollens
Begging the Question
50. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Modus Ponens
Status
Personification
Metaphor