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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. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made






2. If A then B A Therefore B






3. ______ is not: 'not real' - 'mere' or 'empty'






4. 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'






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






6. These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares






7. 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.






8. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.






9. Ending repeated






10. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue






11. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____


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






13. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing






14. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another






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






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






17. 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






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






19. An argument with true premises and valid form






20. Based on the setting - which dictates the ____ ____ used to determine who has won the debate - E.g. Academic Policy Debate: stock issues Criminal Court Case: beyond a reasonable doubt Civil Courtroom: preponderance of evidence This Classroom: were yo






21. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate






22. A or B Not A Therefore - B






23. 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






24. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






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






26. Assuming as a premise some form of the very point that is at issue - the very conclusion we intend to prove. Also called circular reasoning.






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






28. 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






29. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope






30. 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:






31. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth






32. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






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






34. Set two things in opposition






35. 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'






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






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






38. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true






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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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'






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






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






46. If A then B Not B Therefore not A






47. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






48. 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






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






50. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.