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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Opposite of anadiplosis
Anaphora
Epanalepsis
Debate Resolutions
Litotes
2. Oppostite of Litotes
Situationally flawed
Epanalepsis
Hyperbole
Corax
3. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Debate Resolutions
Modus Ponens
Good Moral Character
Rhetoric
4. 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 -'
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Appeal to Ignorance
Turn
Non Sequitur
5. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Composition
Ambiguity
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Prolepsis
6. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Disassociation of Concepts
Antithesis
Sign
Blame
7. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Litotes
Formal Logic
Epistrophe
8. 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?
Appeal to Authority
Rhetoric
Checking for Example argument
Parallelism
9. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Formal Logic
Parallelism
(Argument from) Testimony
Metaphor
10. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Hyperbole
Decorum
Enthymeme
11. Ending repeated
Epistrophe
Rhetoric
Composition
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
12. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Sign
Stasis
False Charge of Fallacy
Rhetoric
13. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Metaphor
Testimony
14. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Antithesis
False Charge of Fallacy
Ethos
Consistency
15. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Litotes
Analogy
Second
Division
16. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Locus of Quality
Red Herring
Grounds (or data)
Checking for Sign argument
17. 1. Applying the tests of reasoning to show weaknesses in arguments and develop counterarguments 2. Accusing opponent of using fallacious reasoning 3. Pointing out a flawed metaphor 4. Discrediting the ethos of opponent 5. Pointing out flawed statisti
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Tools of Refutation
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Begging the Question
18. Appeals from the character of the speaker
Good Will (Ethos)
Arguments
Ethos
Term I/Term II
19. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Loci of the Preferable
Unequivocal
Stock Issues
Litotes
20. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
Toulmin Model
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
(Argument by) Example
21. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Cure
(Argument from) Narrative
Turn
Composition
22. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Syllogism
Checking for Cause argement
Procedural (Stasis)
Questionable Analogy
23. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Refutation Potential
Epanalepsis
24. Opposite of Anaphora
Epanalepsis
Epistrophe
Disassociation of Concepts
Procedural (Stasis)
25. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Anadiplosis
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Commonplaces
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
26. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Qualitative (Stasis)
Stock Issues
Sign
Equivocation
27. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Deductive Reasoning
Warrant
Protagoras
28. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Questionable Analogy
Composition
Isocrates
Erotema
29. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Locus of Quality
(Argument from) Cause
Prolepsis
Metaphor
30. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Checking for Testimony argument
Protagoras
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Conceding Arguments
31. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Checking for Example argument
Blame
Epanalepsis
Corax
32. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Charisma
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
33. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Refutation
Stock Issues
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
34. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
(Argument of ) General probability
Claim
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
35. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Burden of proof
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Begging the Question
Litotes
36. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Exergasia
Tisias
Status
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
37. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Locus of Quantity
Second (or) Third
Claim
38. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
(Argument by) Analogy
Testimony
Second
Tu Quoque
39. 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.
Formal Logic
Consistency
Cure
Begging the Question
40. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'
Narrative
Claim
Associated Commonplaces
Ad Hominem
41. Term with higher (positive) value
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Tisias
Qualitative (Stasis)
42. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Charisma
(Argument of ) General probability
Cost
Unsound
43. 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.
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Decorum
Claim
Unrepresentative Sample
44. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Informal Debate
Hyperbole
Sign
Narrative
45. If A then B B Therefore - A
Locus of Quality
Fallacy Fallacy
Metaphor
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
46. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Gorgias
Checking for Narrative argument
Testimony
Cure
47. Good Moral Character
Good Moral Character
Tu Quoque
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Debate Resolutions
48. beginning repeated at ending
Enthymeme
Stasis
Non Sequitur
Epanalepsis
49. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Intelligence
Valid
Formal Logic
50. Term with lower (negative) value
Locus of Quantity
Hasty Generalization
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points