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1. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Ad Populum
Personification
Plato
2. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Testimony
Argument
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Grounds (or data)
3. 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 Cause argement
Stock Issues
Checking for Analogy argument
Narrative
4. 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'
Ad Hominem
Hyperbole
(Argument from) Testimony
Ambiguity
5. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Rhetoric
Decision Rules
Antithesis
(Fallacy of) Accident
6. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Disassociation of Concepts
Deductive Reasoning
Locus of Essence
Valid
7. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Procedural (Stasis)
Warrant
Checking for Example argument
Checking for Testimony argument
8. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Hyperbole
Manufactroversy
Composition
Categorical (Syllogism)
9. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Personification
Sign
Hasty Generalization
10. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Litotes
Non Sequitur
Definitional (Stasis)
(Argument from) Narrative
11. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Agree on Commonality then refute
Charisma
Metaphor
Conjectural (Stasis)
12. An argument that follows proper logical form
Appeal to Authority
Blame
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Valid
13. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacies
Ad Populum
Refutation Potential
Ill
14. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Locus of Quantity
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Analogy
Common Practice (Fallacy)
15. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Locus of Essence
Litotes
Cliche
Fallacies
16. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Composition
Analogy
Categorical (Syllogism)
Good Will (Ethos)
17. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Stock Issues
Appeal to Authority
Tokenism
Value Hierarchies
18. Beginning repeated
Anaphora
Cliche
False Dichotomy
Personification
19. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Division
Tu Quoque
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
20. 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'
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Intelligence
(Argument from) Cause
Prolepsis
21. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
(Argument of ) General probability
Locus of Quality
Antithesis
Sign
22. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Agree on Commonality then refute
Qualitative (Stasis)
23. An argument with true premises and valid form
Rhetoric
Narrative
Sound
Mixed Metaphor
24. 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
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Begging the Question
Anadiplosis
(Argument from) Sign
25. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Small Sample
Correctio
Anadiplosis
Locus of Quantity
26. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
First
Appeal to Authority
Ethos
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
27. '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?
Tu Quoque
(Argument by) Example
Example
Decorum
28. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Claim
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Division
29. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Arguments
Special Topoi
Burden of proof
Rhetoric
30. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Locus of Essence
Cure
Prolepsis
Second
31. 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
Cost
Prolepsis
Hasty Generalization
Hyperbole
32. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Definitional (Stasis)
Claim
Rhetoric
Popular Democracy
33. 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
Structural (inherency)
Stasis
Parallelism
34. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Quantitative (significance)
Tokenism
Conjectural (Stasis)
Second
35. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Value-Oriented Arguments
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Arguments
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
36. 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?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Parallelism
Mercenary Scientists
Checking for Cause argement
37. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Presumption
Informal Debate
Tools of Refutation
Erotema
38. Good Moral Character
Deductive Reasoning
Valid
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
39. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Division
Checking for Narrative argument
Euphimism
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
40. Opposite of Anaphora
Intelligence
Epistrophe
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Ill
41. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
(Argument from) Narrative
Equivocation
Cure
Structural (inherency)
42. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Loci of the Preferable
Checking for Example argument
Valid
43. Ask a rhetorical question
Erotema
(Argument from) Narrative
Incrementum
Anadiplosis
44. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Attitudinal (inherency)
Checking for Testimony argument
Anaphora
Presumption
45. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)
Fallacy Fallacy
Formal Logic
Checking for Testimony argument
Second
46. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Accident
Euphimism
Blame
47. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Categorical (Syllogism)
(Argument from) Narrative
Isocrates
Term I/Term II
48. This is the name for fallacies that do not have another name but that involve a claim that does not follow from the premises (e.g. the evidence is not relevant or not appropriate to support the claim). Litterally translated as 'it does not follow -'
Exergasia
Straw Person
Sign
Non Sequitur
49. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Term I/Term II
Tools of Refutation
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
50. 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
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Non Sequitur
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