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Public Debating
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Refutation Strategies
Toulmin Model
Locus of Existence
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
2. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Tu Quoque
Begging the Question
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Enthymeme
3. 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
Refutation Strategies
(Argument from) Sign
Equivocation
4. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Tu Quoque
Division
Checking for Testimony argument
Small Sample
5. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Anadiplosis
Conceding Arguments
Direct Refutation
Incrementum
6. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Claim
Stasis
Charisma
Situationally flawed
7. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Ambiguity
Stock Issues
(Argument from) Narrative
Gorgias
8. Deliberate correction
Manufactroversy
Correctio
Hasty Generalization
Ethos
9. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Refutation Potential
Hasty Generalization
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Term I/Term II
10. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Commonplaces
Debate Resolutions
Checking for Narrative argument
Personification
11. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Anaphora
Good Will (Ethos)
Value Hierarchies
Procedural (Stasis)
12. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Status
Consistency
13. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?
Gorgias
Locus of Quantity
Checking for Narrative argument
Cost
14. After this - therefore on account of this
Turn
Mercenary Scientists
Tisias
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
15. 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.
Refutation Potential
Begging the Question
Tools of Refutation
Cost
16. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Hyperbole
Composition
Ill
Isocrates
17. Demonstrating respect and care for the audience
Sophist
Composition
Good Will (Ethos)
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
18. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Syllogism
Attitudinal (inherency)
Sign
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
19. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Hasty Generalization
Exergasia
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
20. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Ethos
Protagoras
Questionable Cause
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
21. 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
Stock Issues
Gorgias
Situationally flawed
Structural (inherency)
22. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Locus of Quality
(Argument from) Sign
(Special Topoi for) Science
23. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Fallacies
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Formal Debate
24. 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
Fallacies
Anadiplosis
Structural (inherency)
Ill
25. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate
Euphimism
Term I/Term II
False Charge of Fallacy
Appeal to Authority
26. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Cliche
Value-Oriented Arguments
Ad Hominem
27. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Example
Division
Quantitative (significance)
Checking for Sign argument
28. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Value-Oriented Arguments
Epanalepsis
Ill
Sign
29. What kind of commonplaces 'deflect reality'
Division
Begging the Question
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Conceding Arguments
30. Obligation of the arguer advocating change to overcome the presumption through argument
Burden of proof
Epistrophe
Cliche
Metaphor
31. 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.
Value Hierarchies
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Debate Resolutions
Disassociation of Concepts
32. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Ad Hominem
False Charge of Fallacy
Locus of Quality
Stock Issues
33. 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 -'
Grounds (or data)
Good Will (Ethos)
Checking for Testimony argument
Non Sequitur
34. Opposite of Anaphora
Epistrophe
Informal Debate
Analogy
Epanalepsis
35. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Turn
Straw Person
Antithesis
First
36. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Rhetoric
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Equivocation
Aristotle
37. What places do procedural stasis usually occupy in an argument?
Litotes
Tu Quoque
Syllogism
Second (or) Third
38. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Categorical (Syllogism)
Red Herring
Stock Issues
Refutation Strategies
39. Opposite of Epistrophe
Checking for Analogy argument
Incrementum
Anaphora
Manufactroversy
40. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')
Grounds (or data)
Composition
Epanalepsis
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
41. The inference compares two similar things - saying that since they are alike in some respects - they are alike in another respect. It can be a figurative analogy or a literal analogy. The warrant usually reads: 'if two things are alike in most respec
(Argument from) Testimony
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
(Argument by) Analogy
42. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Begging the Question
Refutation Potential
(Argument by) Analogy
43. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
(Argument from) Testimony
Locus of Quality
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Appeal to Authority
44. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
Correctio
False Dichotomy
Questionable Analogy
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.
Straw Person
Exergasia
Division
Turn
46. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Checking for Analogy argument
Refutation
47. Is a variety of Hasty Generalization; it is when you draw conclusions about a population on the basis of a sample that is too small to be a reliable measure of that population
Composition
Hyperbole
Intelligence
Small Sample
48. Can the sign be found without the thing for which it stands? Is an alternative explanation of the maning of the sign more credible? Are there countering signs that indicate that his one sign is false?
Checking for Sign argument
Equivocation
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Composition
49. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Debate Resolutions
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Mercenary Scientists
Erotema
50. 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
Second
Warrant
Analogy
Shifting the Burden of Proof