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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Rhetoric
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Gorgias
Hasty Generalization
2. beginning repeated at ending
Epanalepsis
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Good Moral Character
Epistrophe
3. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Locus of Existence
Stock Issues
Formal Logic
Analogy
4. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Appeal to Authority
Decorum
5. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Value Hierarchies
(Argument by) Example
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Conceding Arguments
6. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Procedural (Stasis)
Rhetoric
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Commonplaces
7. 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
Tools of Refutation
Attitudinal (inherency)
Sound
Ill
8. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Narrative
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Procedural (Stasis)
Plato
9. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Questionable Cause
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Hyperbole
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
10. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Associated Commonplaces
(Argument of ) General probability
Locus of Essence
Erotema
11. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Cost
Checking for Testimony argument
Sign
Good Will (Ethos)
12. Opposite of Epistrophe
Arguments
Protagoras
Ad Populum
Anaphora
13. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Modus Tollens
Non Sequitur
Cliche
Cure
14. 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
Quantitative (significance)
(Special Topoi for) Science
Situationally flawed
Sign
15. 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'
Begging the Question
Corax
(Argument by) Example
Parallelism
16. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Attitudinal (inherency)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Turn
Litotes
17. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Direct Refutation
Prolepsis
Blame
18. Exaggeration
Turn
Hyperbole
Claim
Locus of Essence
19. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Checking for Cause argement
Appeal to Authority
Narrative
20. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Analogy
Epistrophe
21. 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)
Fallacy Fallacy
Correctio
Direct Refutation
Checking for Narrative argument
22. 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 -'
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Non Sequitur
Analogy
Loci of the Preferable
23. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Checking for Narrative argument
Hyperbole
24. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Equivocation
Parallelism
Sound
Antithesis
25. 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'
Sophist
Anaphora
Hyperbole
Ad Hominem
26. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Status
Commonplaces
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Consistency
27. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Ad Populum
Qualitative (Stasis)
Conceding Arguments
Analogy
28. Is another variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that this is the way things have always been done
Testimony
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Isocrates
Checking for Sign argument
29. Is a variation of the tu quoque; it is when you justify a wrong by saying that most other people do it too.
Debate Resolutions
Protagoras
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Second (or) Third
30. After this - therefore on account of this
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Begging the Question
Locus of Quality
Epanalepsis
31. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Refutation Potential
Cost
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Conceding Arguments
32. Using information from mercenary scientists is committing what fallacy?
Appeal to Authority
Informal Debate
Second (or) Third
Checking for Testimony argument
33. 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
Qualitative (Stasis)
Sound
Categorical (Syllogism)
Status
34. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Burden of Rejoinder
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Mixed Metaphor
35. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Checking for Cause argement
Division
Blame
False Dichotomy
36. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
Disassociation of Concepts
Checking for Example argument
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Locus of Quantity
37. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Hasty Generalization
Ad Populum
Commonplaces
Claim
38. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
False Dichotomy
Commonplaces
Narrative
Exergasia
39. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Refutation
Aristotle
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Tools of Refutation
40. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Epanalepsis
Intelligence
Corax
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
41. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Litotes
Refutation Strategies
Cost
Equivocation
42. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Simile
Prolepsis
Disassociation of Concepts
Enthymeme
43. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Epistrophe
Anadiplosis
Presumption
Begging the Question
44. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Debate Resolutions
Checking for Example argument
Exergasia
45. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Example
Definitional (Stasis)
Refutation Potential
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
46. 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?
Checking for Sign argument
(Argument from) Sign
Corax
False Dichotomy
47. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Epanalepsis
Argument
Turn
Epanalepsis
48. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Tu Quoque
Questionable Cause
Begging the Question
Hyperbole
49. Opposite of Anaphora
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Epistrophe
Agree on Commonality then refute
Second (or) Third
50. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Debate Resolutions
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Grounds (or data)