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1. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Checking for Analogy argument
Burden of Rejoinder
Cure
Formal Logic
2. 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 -'
Direct Refutation
(Argument by) Analogy
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Non Sequitur
3. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Turn
Checking for Narrative argument
(Argument from) Testimony
Intelligence
4. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Second (or) Third
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Straw Person
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
5. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Decision Rules
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Non Sequitur
Charisma
6. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Blame
Prolepsis
Appeal to Authority
7. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Rhetoric
Structural (inherency)
Toulmin Model
False Dichotomy
8. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Checking for Cause argement
Conceding Arguments
False Charge of Fallacy
Questionable Cause
9. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Locus of Quality
Term I/Term II
Debate Resolutions
(Fallacy of) Accident
10. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Non Sequitur
Appeal to Ignorance
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
11. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Stasis
Loci of the Preferable
Ad Populum
Cliche
12. Oppostite of Litotes
Syllogism
Hyperbole
Argument
Warrant
13. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Rhetoric
Good Will (Ethos)
Refutation Potential
Deductive Reasoning
14. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Protagoras
Categorical (Syllogism)
Accident
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
15. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Stasis
Tisias
Metaphor
Straw Person
16. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
First
Euphimism
Rhetoric
17. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Checking for Example argument
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Ethos
(Argument of ) General probability
18. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Locus of Quality
Blame
Good Moral Character
Exergasia
19. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
(Special Topoi for) Science
Formal Logic
Tu Quoque
20. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Special Topoi
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Antithesis
Antithesis
21. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Cure
(Fallacy of) Accident
Ethos
Locus of Essence
22. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Erotema
Deductive Reasoning
Example
Good Will (Ethos)
23. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Vehicle (and) Tenor
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Syllogism
24. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Debate Resolutions
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
False Dichotomy
Begging the Question
25. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Analogy
Locus of Essence
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Manufactroversy
26. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Anadiplosis
Argument
Unequivocal
27. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Appeal to Ignorance
Hasty Generalization
Structural (inherency)
28. Reasoning from case to case
Status
Questionable Analogy
Red Herring
Analogy
29. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Enthymeme
Fallacies
Begging the Question
Shifting the Burden of Proof
30. Four categories of the Loci of the Preferable
Conceding Arguments
Stasis
Burden of proof
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
31. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Appeal to Authority
Charisma
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Consistency
32. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
Checking for Testimony argument
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Appeal to Authority
Fallacy Fallacy
33. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Small Sample
Cost
Aristotle
Commonplaces
34. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
(Argument from) Sign
Definitional (Stasis)
Unequivocal
Appeal to Ignorance
35. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
(Argument of ) General probability
Isocrates
36. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Good Will (Ethos)
(Fallacy of) Accident
Simile
37. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
Testimony
Sound
Consistency
Categorical (Syllogism)
38. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Attitudinal (inherency)
Toulmin Model
Quantitative (significance)
39. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Parallelism
Unrepresentative Sample
Checking for Analogy argument
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
40. Opposite of Epistrophe
Anaphora
Checking for Narrative argument
Composition
Protagoras
41. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Sign
Stock Issues
Good Moral Character
Associated Commonplaces
42. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Hyperbole
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Burden of proof
Presumption
43. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Turn
Parallelism
Unsound
Isocrates
44. '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?
Tu Quoque
Checking for Example argument
Personification
Example
45. Who developed the argument from general probability?
False Charge of Fallacy
Testimony
Modus Ponens
Corax
46. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Tu Quoque
Intelligence
Parallelism
Epanalepsis
47. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Equivocation
Turn
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Rhetoric
48. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Formal Debate
Anadiplosis
Ill
49. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Burden of proof
Checking for Narrative argument
Syllogism
Situationally flawed
50. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Informal Debate
Antithesis
Burden of Rejoinder
Disjunctive (Syllogism)