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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.






2. 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?






3. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.






4. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






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






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






7. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members






8. beginning repeated at ending






9. Set two things in opposition






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






11. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)






12. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






13. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest






14. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?






15. 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






16. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses






17. 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?






18. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change






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






20. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?






21. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






22. 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






23. The list that builds






24. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)






25. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.






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






27. 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






28. A or B Not A Therefore - B






29. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed






30. 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'






31. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing






32. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.






33. If A then B Not A Therefore not B






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






35. 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 -'






36. 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






37. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






38. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'






39. Term with higher (positive) value






40. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success






41. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy






42. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.






43. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.






44. 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






45. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C






46. If A then B A Therefore B






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






48. 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?






49. Who developed the argument from general probability?






50. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?