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Public Debating
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1. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Composition
Epistrophe
Commonplaces
Mixed Metaphor
2. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Argument
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Second
Begging the Question
3. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Unequivocal
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Tu Quoque
Anaphora
4. Beginning repeated
Correctio
Isocrates
Anaphora
Common Practice (Fallacy)
5. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Refutation Strategies
Gorgias
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
6. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Epanalepsis
Erotema
Tu Quoque
Burden of proof
7. Set two things in opposition
(Argument from) Cause
Appeal to Authority
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Antithesis
8. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Warrant
Epanalepsis
Checking for Example argument
Non Sequitur
9. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Checking for Sign argument
Analogy
Appeal to Authority
Valid
10. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Prolepsis
Checking for Sign argument
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Division
11. 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
Claim
Second
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Hasty Generalization
12. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Protagoras
Epanalepsis
Turn
Sign
13. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
False Charge of Fallacy
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Categorical (Syllogism)
Sign
14. 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
(Argument from) Testimony
Procedural (Stasis)
Manufactroversy
Anadiplosis
15. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Erotema
Red Herring
Appeal to Ignorance
Epanalepsis
16. Understatement
Value Hierarchies
Tu Quoque
Stasis
Litotes
17. Good Moral Character
Antithesis
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
(Argument from) Testimony
Valid
18. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Structural (inherency)
Ill
Second (or) Third
Grounds (or data)
19. 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'
Composition
Stasis
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Tu Quoque
20. 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?
(Special Topoi for) Science
Checking for Sign argument
Special Topoi
First
21. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
(Special Topoi for) Science
Quantitative (significance)
Checking for Analogy argument
22. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Euphimism
Refutation Potential
Litotes
Grounds (or data)
23. The inference says that one thing is a sign of another. It's usually used in an argument that something IS. The warrant to this argument is usually in the form 'X is a sign of Y'
Correctio
Argument
Ad Hominem
(Argument from) Sign
24. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Loci of the Preferable
Anaphora
Emotionally Charged (Language)
25. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Parallelism
Locus of Quantity
Cliche
Antithesis
26. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
Non Sequitur
First
Epanalepsis
Tu Quoque
27. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Good Will (Ethos)
Locus of Essence
Protagoras
False Charge of Fallacy
28. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Warrant
Decorum
Appeal to Ignorance
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
29. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Tools of Refutation
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Checking for Cause argement
30. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Blame
Erotema
Unsound
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
31. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Locus of Existence
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Non Sequitur
Parallelism
32. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Mercenary Scientists
Ethos
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Ad Hominem
33. 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
Tisias
Conjectural (Stasis)
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Loci of the Preferable
34. What vehicles and tenors share
Syllogism
Ill
Non Sequitur
Associated Commonplaces
35. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Narrative
Simile
Parallelism
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
36. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B
Composition
Categorical (Syllogism)
Agree on Commonality then refute
Commonplaces
37. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Refutation
Anadiplosis
False Dichotomy
Second
38. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Argument
Ambiguity
Questionable Analogy
Manufactroversy
39. An argument with true premises and valid form
Ad Hominem
Equivocation
Sign
Sound
40. 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?
Analogy
Checking for Cause argement
Special Topoi
Vehicle (and) Tenor
41. An argument that follows proper logical form
Ad Populum
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Valid
Composition
42. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Arguments
Good Will (Ethos)
(Argument from) Sign
43. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Anaphora
Sophist
Analogy
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
44. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Questionable Cause
Charisma
Decision Rules
Mixed Metaphor
45. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Procedural (Stasis)
Antithesis
Isocrates
Consistency
46. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Tokenism
Definitional (Stasis)
Anaphora
Prolepsis
47. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Aristotle
Correctio
Rhetoric
Refutation Strategies
48. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Consistency
First
Simile
Structural (inherency)
49. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Manufactroversy
Tisias
Term I/Term II
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
50. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Correctio
Red Herring
Epistrophe
Parallelism
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