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1. Circular Reasoning
Epanalepsis
Begging the Question
Commonplaces
Value-Oriented Arguments
2. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Personification
Anaphora
Good Moral Character
Epanalepsis
3. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Erotema
False Dichotomy
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Refutation Potential
4. 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
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Ad Populum
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
5. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Protagoras
Composition
Accident
Second (or) Third
6. 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
Locus of Existence
Rhetoric
Metaphor
Hasty Generalization
7. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Checking for Example argument
Accident
Simile
8. 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 -'
Litotes
Epistrophe
Non Sequitur
Erotema
9. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
Disassociation of Concepts
(Argument from) Sign
Consistency
10. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Appeal to Authority
Deductive Reasoning
Ethos
(Argument of ) General probability
11. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Appeal to Authority
Fallacies
Epanalepsis
Manufactroversy
12. '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?
(Argument by) Analogy
Associated Commonplaces
Modus Tollens
Example
13. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.
Small Sample
Sound
Debate Resolutions
Locus of Existence
14. 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'
Appeal to Authority
Anadiplosis
(Argument from) Testimony
Locus of Quantity
15. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Questionable Cause
Presumption
Stock Issues
Anadiplosis
16. 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
Categorical (Syllogism)
Popular Democracy
Appeal to Ignorance
(Argument of ) General probability
17. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Blame
Aristotle
Mixed Metaphor
18. The inference moves from specific to general or from general to specific. The warrant to this argument usually reads 'what is true in this case is true in general' or 'what is true in general is true in this case'
Appeal to Authority
Debate Resolutions
(Argument by) Example
Ambiguity
19. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
(Argument from) Narrative
Syllogism
Division
20. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Special Topoi
Appeal to Ignorance
Example
Rhetoric
21. Term with lower (negative) value
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Toulmin Model
Analogy
Antithesis
22. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Simile
Sign
Litotes
23. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Unrepresentative Sample
Blame
24. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Stasis
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
25. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Isocrates
Cost
(Special Topoi for) Science
Second
26. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Stock Issues
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Composition
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
27. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:
Value Hierarchies
Warrant
Analogy
Blame
28. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Ill
Analogy
Arguments
Checking for Narrative argument
29. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Direct Refutation
Antithesis
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Appeal to Authority
30. 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
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Formal Logic
Formal Debate
Small Sample
31. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Tu Quoque
False Dichotomy
Division
Intelligence
32. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Anadiplosis
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
33. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Stock Issues
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Isocrates
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
34. 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.
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Unsound
Situationally flawed
Disassociation of Concepts
35. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Erotema
Antithesis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
36. 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
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Erotema
Refutation Strategies
Decision Rules
37. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Direct Refutation
Litotes
Tisias
Second
38. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Litotes
Prolepsis
False Dichotomy
39. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Value-Oriented Arguments
Claim
Status
Checking for Example argument
40. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Ill
Composition
Metaphor
Non Sequitur
41. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
42. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Begging the Question
Popular Democracy
Erotema
Questionable Analogy
43. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Protagoras
(Argument from) Narrative
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Fallacies
44. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Mixed Metaphor
Locus of Existence
Narrative
Quantitative (significance)
45. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Tisias
Red Herring
Testimony
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
46. After this - therefore on account of this
Appeal to Authority
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Cost
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
47. 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
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Rhetoric
Stasis
Isocrates
48. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Informal Debate
Debate Resolutions
Charisma
Checking for Example argument
49. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Cliche
Refutation Strategies
Plato
Second (or) Third
50. 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
Ill
Exergasia
Correctio
(Argument by) Example