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Public Debating
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Straw Person
Litotes
Rhetoric
Emotionally Charged (Language)
2. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Tokenism
Checking for Analogy argument
Enthymeme
Narrative
3. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Ethos
Hasty Generalization
Consistency
Division
4. 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?
Blame
Unrepresentative Sample
Checking for Cause argement
Epanalepsis
5. If A then B B Therefore - A
Consistency
Ambiguity
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Associated Commonplaces
6. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Debate Resolutions
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
(Fallacy of) Accident
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
7. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Questionable Cause
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Tokenism
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
8. 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'
(Argument from) Testimony
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Burden of Rejoinder
Isocrates
9. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Term I/Term II
Structural (inherency)
Ill
Begging the Question
10. 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
Loci of the Preferable
Fallacies
Gorgias
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
11. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Appeal to Authority
Conceding Arguments
Grounds (or data)
Red Herring
12. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Checking for Sign argument
Appeal to Ignorance
Attitudinal (inherency)
Equivocation
13. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Division
Prolepsis
Accident
14. An argument with true premises and valid form
Hasty Generalization
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Sound
Locus of Quality
15. Reasoning from case to case
(Argument from) Testimony
Composition
Tools of Refutation
Analogy
16. 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
Correctio
Checking for Narrative argument
Tools of Refutation
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
17. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Rhetoric
Small Sample
Value-Oriented Arguments
Intelligence
18. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Ill
Appeal to Ignorance
Ethos
Second (or) Third
19. '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?
Locus of Existence
Informal Debate
Unsound
Example
20. Opposite of anadiplosis
Correctio
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Epanalepsis
21. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Locus of Quality
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Ambiguity
Euphimism
22. 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?
Protagoras
Checking for Example argument
(Argument by) Analogy
Value-Oriented Arguments
23. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Parallelism
Appeal to Ignorance
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Composition
24. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Epistrophe
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Appeal to Authority
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
25. 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'
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Ad Hominem
Mixed Metaphor
Rhetoric
26. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Mercenary Scientists
Term I/Term II
Sophist
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
27. Oral performances that have a set format in which two or more speakers take turns making arguments and counterarguments before an audience - Examples: Court room - candidate debates - academic debates
(Argument from) Narrative
Formal Logic
Erotema
Formal Debate
28. After this - therefore on account of this
(Argument from) Narrative
Mercenary Scientists
Arguments
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
29. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Rhetoric
Anaphora
Litotes
Corax
30. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Checking for Cause argement
Division
Arguments
Blame
31. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Stock Issues
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Refutation
Status
32. beginning repeated at ending
Epanalepsis
Burden of Rejoinder
Corax
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
33. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Cure
Second (or) Third
Checking for Cause argement
Status
34. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Red Herring
Questionable Analogy
(Special Topoi for) Science
35. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Sign
Special Topoi
Value Hierarchies
(Argument by) Example
36. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Valid
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
(Argument from) Cause
Refutation
37. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Intelligence
Parallelism
Value Hierarchies
Charisma
38. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Anadiplosis
Narrative
39. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Ad Populum
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Stasis
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
40. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Arguments
Fallacy Fallacy
Enthymeme
Appeal to Authority
41. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Litotes
Metaphor
Ill
42. 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
Cliche
Exergasia
Decision Rules
Archetypal (Metaphor)
43. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Stock Issues
Commonplaces
Decorum
44. 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
Charisma
Hasty Generalization
Popular Democracy
Analogy
45. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Prolepsis
Metaphor
Protagoras
Litotes
46. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Tu Quoque
Refutation Strategies
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
47. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Exergasia
Cure
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
48. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Value-Oriented Arguments
Sophist
Tisias
Checking for Testimony argument
49. 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
Structural (inherency)
Corax
Euphimism
Rhetoric
50. What vehicles and tenors share
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Intelligence
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Associated Commonplaces