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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
(Special Topoi for) Science
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Sign
Division
2. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Ill
Informal Debate
Ambiguity
Checking for Sign argument
3. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Attitudinal (inherency)
Argument
Epanalepsis
4. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Formal Logic
Mercenary Scientists
Isocrates
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
5. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Analogy
(Fallacy of) Accident
Procedural (Stasis)
Formal Debate
6. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Fallacy Fallacy
Antithesis
Associated Commonplaces
7. 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 Analogy argument
Formal Debate
Questionable Cause
(Argument from) Testimony
8. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Stock Issues
Antithesis
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Fallacies
9. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Quantitative (significance)
False Charge of Fallacy
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
10. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Stasis
Debate Resolutions
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
11. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Stasis
Unsound
Checking for Example argument
12. '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
Euphimism
Formal Debate
Good Moral Character
13. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Sign
Popular Democracy
Blame
Erotema
14. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Modus Ponens
Warrant
Toulmin Model
False Charge of Fallacy
15. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
16. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Charisma
Parallelism
Metaphor
Correctio
17. The process of using logic to draw conclusions from given facts - definitions - and properties
Deductive Reasoning
Red Herring
Rhetoric
Mercenary Scientists
18. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Categorical (Syllogism)
Antithesis
Locus of Existence
Mercenary Scientists
19. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Claim
Metaphor
Status
Epanalepsis
20. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Refutation
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
21. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Value Hierarchies
Prolepsis
Checking for Sign argument
22. Reasoning from case to case
Analogy
Toulmin Model
Exergasia
Epanalepsis
23. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Epistrophe
Antithesis
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
24. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Syllogism
Prolepsis
Refutation Strategies
Cure
25. 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
Erotema
Refutation Potential
Ill
Conceding Arguments
26. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
Charisma
False Dichotomy
Rhetoric
Metaphor
27. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Stock Issues
Second (or) Third
Hasty Generalization
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
28. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Tokenism
Stasis
Ethos
Corax
29. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Hasty Generalization
Warrant
Syllogism
Stock Issues
30. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Litotes
Anadiplosis
Fallacy Fallacy
Gorgias
31. Oppostite of Litotes
Euphimism
Division
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Hyperbole
32. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Special Topoi
Anaphora
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Commonplaces
33. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Appeal to Ignorance
Ad Populum
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Sophist
34. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Syllogism
Intelligence
Cost
Modus Tollens
35. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Accident
Analogy
Formal Logic
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
36. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Appeal to Authority
Metaphor
Turn
Burden of proof
37. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'
Rhetoric
Appeal to Ignorance
Mixed Metaphor
Deductive Reasoning
38. Opposite of anadiplosis
False Charge of Fallacy
Situationally flawed
Burden of Rejoinder
Epanalepsis
39. Metaphors use ____ and ____
(Argument from) Sign
Cost
Exergasia
Vehicle (and) Tenor
40. The belief that current thinking - attitudes - values - and actions will continue in the absence of good arguments for their change
Presumption
Isocrates
Decorum
Cliche
41. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Narrative
Good Moral Character
Isocrates
Correctio
42. 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
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
(Argument from) Narrative
Categorical (Syllogism)
43. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Antithesis
Unsound
Rhetoric
44. Attempts to assign responsibility for the existence of the ill to the current system. Needs to connect the ill to the policy in order for it to be changed. Must Have: 1. Structural Inherency: bad structure/lack of structure 2. Attitudinal Inherency:
Checking for Narrative argument
Unrepresentative Sample
Blame
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
45. 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 -'
Tu Quoque
Non Sequitur
Categorical (Syllogism)
Value-Oriented Arguments
46. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members
Hasty Generalization
False Dichotomy
(Argument of ) General probability
Rhetoric
47. 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
Anaphora
Categorical (Syllogism)
Tu Quoque
Modus Ponens
48. 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
Litotes
Ill
Begging the Question
49. Set two things in opposition
Special Topoi
Unrepresentative Sample
Personification
Antithesis
50. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Good Will (Ethos)
Definitional (Stasis)
Tools of Refutation
Non Sequitur