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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument from) Sign
Ill
2. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Plato
Euphimism
Manufactroversy
Sign
3. Deliberate correction
Correctio
(Argument by) Example
Associated Commonplaces
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
4. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Anaphora
Protagoras
Appeal to Ignorance
Commonplaces
5. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Unsound
Locus of Essence
Grounds (or data)
Burden of Rejoinder
6. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Narrative
Conjectural (Stasis)
Debate Resolutions
Blame
7. beginning repeated at ending
Anaphora
Argument
Epanalepsis
Presumption
8. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
Mixed Metaphor
Rhetoric
First
9. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Erotema
Personification
Cure
Checking for Narrative argument
10. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Aristotle
Direct Refutation
Questionable Analogy
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
11. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Charisma
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Direct Refutation
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
12. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Ad Populum
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Term I/Term II
13. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Personification
Popular Democracy
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Appeal to Ignorance
14. Misrepresenting an opponent's position as more extreme than it really is and then attacking that version - or attacking a weaker opponent while ignoring a stronger one.
Stock Issues
Straw Person
(Argument by) Example
Disassociation of Concepts
15. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Tu Quoque
Composition
Quantitative (significance)
Antithesis
16. 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)
Unsound
Fallacy Fallacy
Hyperbole
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
17. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
Sign
(Argument from) Cause
Conceding Arguments
False Charge of Fallacy
18. 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
Toulmin Model
Red Herring
Situationally flawed
Hasty Generalization
19. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Procedural (Stasis)
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Hasty Generalization
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
20. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Ill
Tools of Refutation
Appeal to Authority
Ambiguity
21. Reasoning from case to case
Correctio
Claim
Rhetoric
Analogy
22. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
(Argument from) Narrative
Ill
Fallacies
23. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Ill
Metaphor
24. 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'
(Argument by) Example
Value-Oriented Arguments
Definitional (Stasis)
(Argument from) Cause
25. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Ill
Tisias
Charisma
26. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
Stock Issues
Mixed Metaphor
(Fallacy of) Accident
Hyperbole
27. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Modus Tollens
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Cure
28. Good Moral Character
Mercenary Scientists
Formal Debate
Correctio
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
29. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Ill
Formal Logic
Metaphor
(Fallacy of) Accident
30. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Cliche
(Fallacy of) Accident
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Epistrophe
31. 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)
Anaphora
Corax
Parallelism
32. Most fallacies are ____ ____; that is if the argument were to employ difference evidence - or be offered in different circumstances - it would be perfectly fine - but in the specific case in which it is identified as a fallacy - it is flawed
Situationally flawed
Stock Issues
Hasty Generalization
Anaphora
33. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Checking for Sign argument
Anadiplosis
Second
Rhetoric
34. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Tu Quoque
Presumption
Checking for Testimony argument
35. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?
First
Corax
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Analogy
36. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Blame
(Argument by) Example
Charisma
37. If A then B A Therefore B
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Appeal to Ignorance
Appeal to Authority
Modus Ponens
38. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Refutation
Structural (inherency)
Aristotle
Tu Quoque
39. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Prolepsis
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Checking for Analogy argument
Protagoras
40. 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
Metaphor
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Formal Debate
41. Term with higher (positive) value
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Refutation Potential
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Tokenism
42. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Hyperbole
Burden of proof
Tu Quoque
43. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Correctio
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Rhetoric
44. Circular Reasoning
Cure
Checking for Sign argument
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Begging the Question
45. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Term I/Term II
Locus of Quality
Value Hierarchies
Ethos
46. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Associated Commonplaces
Consistency
Formal Logic
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
47. The list that builds
Incrementum
Toulmin Model
Turn
False Dichotomy
48. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Gorgias
Valid
Blame
49. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Unrepresentative Sample
Mixed Metaphor
Direct Refutation
Formal Debate
50. Opposite of Epistrophe
(Argument from) Cause
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Informal Debate
Anaphora
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