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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Litotes
Situationally flawed
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Attitudinal (inherency)
2. After this - therefore on account of this
Hyperbole
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Unrepresentative Sample
Begging the Question
3. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Grounds (or data)
Anaphora
Value Hierarchies
Hasty Generalization
4. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Checking for Example argument
Tu Quoque
Analogy
Checking for Sign argument
5. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Tu Quoque
Cost
Structural (inherency)
Locus of Essence
6. Understatement
Rhetoric
Litotes
Conceding Arguments
Commonplaces
7. '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?
Example
Fallacies
Hyperbole
Analogy
8. 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
Red Herring
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Sign
Claim
9. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Formal Logic
Refutation Potential
Exergasia
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
10. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.
Value-Oriented Arguments
Unsound
Direct Refutation
Common Practice (Fallacy)
11. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Personification
Good Moral Character
Locus of Quality
12. Ideas repeated
Epistrophe
Composition
Exergasia
(Argument from) Testimony
13. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Sign
Cliche
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Aristotle
14. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Intelligence
Warrant
Questionable Analogy
Situationally flawed
15. Good Moral Character
False Dichotomy
Antithesis
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Good Moral Character
16. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Associated Commonplaces
Second
Tokenism
Value Hierarchies
17. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Charisma
Fallacy Fallacy
Gorgias
Unrepresentative Sample
18. 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'
Testimony
(Argument from) Cause
Modus Tollens
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
19. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Burden of Rejoinder
Anaphora
Cost
Intelligence
20. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Decision Rules
Anaphora
Corax
Enthymeme
21. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
(Argument of ) General probability
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Plato
22. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Protagoras
Blame
Non Sequitur
Term I/Term II
23. Opposite of Epistrophe
Burden of Rejoinder
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Anaphora
Blame
24. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Prolepsis
Categorical (Syllogism)
Consistency
Testimony
25. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Locus of Quantity
Second (or) Third
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Emotionally Charged (Language)
26. The inference reasons that what a trustworthy source says is true. The warrant to this argument usually says - 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true'
(Argument from) Testimony
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Simile
Ambiguity
27. An argument with true premises and valid form
Categorical (Syllogism)
Sound
Division
Checking for Cause argement
28. 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
Manufactroversy
Checking for Narrative argument
Warrant
29. Taking one idea and dividing it into two parts - disengaging the two resulting ideas - giving a positive value to one (Term II) and a lesser or negative value to the other (Term I). These are often based on the appearance/reality pair.
Status
Disassociation of Concepts
Ethos
Hyperbole
30. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Turn
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Popular Democracy
31. 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.
Mercenary Scientists
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Straw Person
32. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
(Argument from) Testimony
Decorum
Division
Arguments
33. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Parallelism
Isocrates
Grounds (or data)
Tools of Refutation
34. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Hyperbole
Litotes
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Blame
35. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Tools of Refutation
Blame
Fallacy Fallacy
36. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Situationally flawed
Anadiplosis
Narrative
37. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Refutation Strategies
Accident
Mercenary Scientists
38. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Tu Quoque
Good Will (Ethos)
Epanalepsis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
39. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Procedural (Stasis)
Cure
Charisma
Unequivocal
40. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Second (or) Third
Special Topoi
Good Moral Character
Straw Person
41. 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?
Checking for Sign argument
Checking for Analogy argument
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument of ) General probability
42. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Popular Democracy
Qualitative (Stasis)
Burden of proof
Value-Oriented Arguments
43. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Begging the Question
Situationally flawed
Hyperbole
Ad Populum
44. 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
Checking for Example argument
Formal Debate
Qualitative (Stasis)
45. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Ad Hominem
Narrative
Commonplaces
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
46. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Refutation Potential
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Appeal to Ignorance
Situationally flawed
47. What vehicles and tenors share
Associated Commonplaces
Intelligence
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Term I/Term II
48. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Attitudinal (inherency)
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Anaphora
Stasis
49. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Rhetoric
Begging the Question
Non Sequitur
Euphimism
50. If A then B B Therefore - A
Non Sequitur
Associated Commonplaces
Consistency
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)