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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
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1. 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






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






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






4. Term with lower (negative) value






5. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides






6. Did not pay Corax for sophistry lessons and was taken to court






7. 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'






8. Opposite of Hyperbole






9. Oppostite of Litotes






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






11. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C






12. Understatement






13. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






14. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?






15. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read






16. Structure repeated






17. The list that builds






18. Exaggeration






19. Does one thing really cause the other - or are they merely correlated? Is there another larger cause or series of causes that better explains the effect?






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






21. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.






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






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






24. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)






25. 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






26. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






27. 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?






28. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.






29. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






30. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work






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






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






33. Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.






34. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue






35. Draws a conclusion about the PARTS of an ENTITY based on knowledge about the whole entity.






36. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?






37. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.






38. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike






39. 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






40. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?






41. 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:






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






43. Term with higher (positive) value






44. A or B Not A Therefore - B






45. 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.






46. 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?






47. Does the argument effectively appeal to audience values and priorities? Does the argument accurately capture the values at play in this situation?






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






49. If A then B Not A Therefore not B






50. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.