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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






2. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)






3. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts






4. Understatement






5. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost






6. beginning repeated at ending






7. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






8. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner






9. Reasoning from case to case






10. If A then B B Therefore - A






11. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.






12. Is the source qualified to say what is being said? Is she or he in a position to know this information? Does the testimony represent what the authority really meant to say? Is the source relatively unbiased and recent?






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






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






15. 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?






16. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.






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






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






19. 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'






20. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)






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






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






23. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others






24. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'






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






26. 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'






27. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category






28. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____






29. Ideas repeated






30. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






31. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity






32. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'






33. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?






34. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.






35. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises






36. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike






37. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry






38. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument






39. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.






40. Circular Reasoning






41. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument






42. Opposite of anadiplosis






43. Opposite of Epanalepsis






44. A or B Not A Therefore - B






45. 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






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






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






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






49. 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?






50. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?