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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made
False Dichotomy
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Burden of proof
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
2. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest
Special Topoi
Cost
Situationally flawed
Epistrophe
3. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Analogy
Metaphor
Cliche
Rhetoric
4. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Hyperbole
Associated Commonplaces
Argument
Cost
5. beginning repeated at ending
Appeal to Authority
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Burden of proof
Epanalepsis
6. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Special Topoi
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Fallacies
Manufactroversy
7. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Rhetoric
Good Moral Character
Enthymeme
Epistrophe
8. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Formal Debate
Plato
(Argument of ) General probability
9. 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'
First
Cost
Disassociation of Concepts
Ad Hominem
10. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Rhetoric
Checking for Testimony argument
Tools of Refutation
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
11. 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.
Debate Resolutions
Refutation Potential
Checking for Narrative argument
Procedural (Stasis)
12. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Analogy
Correctio
Charisma
Locus of Quantity
13. Opposite of Anaphora
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Locus of Quality
Epistrophe
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
14. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Correctio
Analogy
Anadiplosis
Appeal to Ignorance
15. Deliberate correction
Correctio
(Argument from) Sign
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Claim
16. The list that builds
Ad Hominem
Red Herring
Incrementum
Euphimism
17. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Exergasia
Isocrates
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Conceding Arguments
18. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Tu Quoque
Modus Tollens
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Appeal to Authority
19. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Debate Resolutions
Locus of Quantity
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
20. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Claim
Epistrophe
Common Practice (Fallacy)
(Argument of ) General probability
21. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Checking for Sign argument
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Manufactroversy
22. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Testimony
Anaphora
Straw Person
Archetypal (Metaphor)
23. 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?
Locus of Existence
Tools of Refutation
Checking for Testimony argument
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
24. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
Anaphora
Blame
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Formal Debate
25. Opposite of Epistrophe
Formal Debate
Popular Democracy
Cure
Anaphora
26. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.
Qualitative (Stasis)
Isocrates
Litotes
Situationally flawed
27. After this - therefore on account of this
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Straw Person
Tu Quoque
Analogy
28. '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?
Popular Democracy
Valid
Division
Example
29. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Equivocation
Anadiplosis
Division
Sound
30. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Second
Euphimism
Cure
Plato
31. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Burden of Rejoinder
Narrative
Litotes
32. 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 -'
Cost
Non Sequitur
Example
Red Herring
33. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Epistrophe
Epistrophe
Plato
Archetypal (Metaphor)
34. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Ambiguity
(Fallacy of) Accident
Cure
Antithesis
35. Repetition of the endings of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.
Checking for Cause argement
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Epistrophe
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
36. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Locus of Quantity
Sound
Deductive Reasoning
Personification
37. Understatement
Tu Quoque
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Litotes
Isocrates
38. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Second (or) Third
Aristotle
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
39. 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
Questionable Cause
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Exergasia
Value-Oriented Arguments
40. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Mercenary Scientists
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Example
Hyperbole
41. Term with higher (positive) value
(Argument from) Sign
Term I/Term II
Erotema
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
42. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)
Anadiplosis
Sign
Tu Quoque
Arguments
43. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Metaphor
Antithesis
Tokenism
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
44. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Litotes
Formal Logic
Protagoras
45. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Epanalepsis
Claim
Exergasia
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
46. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.
Division
Stasis
Cure
Antithesis
47. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Ambiguity
Commonplaces
Correctio
(Argument by) Example
48. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Informal Debate
Warrant
Litotes
49. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Intelligence
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Unsound
Syllogism
50. Defending something by pointing out that your opponent did it as well. Also called 'two wrongs make a right'; this is literally translated as 'thou also'
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Composition
Tu Quoque
Disassociation of Concepts