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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.






3. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court






4. 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.






5. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)






6. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec






7. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.






8. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






9. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.






10. 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)






11. 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






12. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights






13. 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






14. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)






15. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole






16. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'






17. Ending repeated






18. Opposite of anadiplosis






19. Appeals from the character of the speaker






20. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'






21. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal






22. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue






23. 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:






24. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another






25. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals






26. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture






27. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____






28. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective






29. 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






30. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)






31. 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






32. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?






33. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?






34. An argument with true premises and valid form






35. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.






36. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.






37. Ideas repeated






38. 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?






39. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins






40. A or B Not A Therefore - B






41. If A then B A Therefore B






42. 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?






43. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties






44. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.






45. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.






46. '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?






47. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






48. If A then B Not B Therefore not A






49. Beginning repeated






50. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.