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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Questionable Cause
Composition
Division
Locus of Quality
2. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Narrative
Presumption
3. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
Questionable Analogy
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Value-Oriented Arguments
4. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Isocrates
Checking for Testimony argument
Unequivocal
(Argument from) Sign
5. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Epanalepsis
Commonplaces
Tu Quoque
(Special Topoi for) Science
6. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)
Turn
Small Sample
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
7. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Checking for Cause argement
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Ill
8. 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
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Locus of Essence
Valid
Decorum
9. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives
Turn
Formal Logic
Direct Refutation
Locus of Quantity
10. 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?
Blame
Procedural (Stasis)
Charisma
Checking for Sign argument
11. 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
Ill
Checking for Testimony argument
Charisma
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
12. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Hyperbole
Conjectural (Stasis)
Arguments
13. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Mixed Metaphor
Good Moral Character
Decorum
(Argument by) Example
14. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Rhetoric
Value-Oriented Arguments
Term I/Term II
Blame
15. 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
Checking for Sign argument
Epanalepsis
Small Sample
Checking for Narrative argument
16. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Ad Populum
Sophist
Attitudinal (inherency)
Rhetoric
17. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Epanalepsis
Locus of Essence
Consistency
Division
18. 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.
Disassociation of Concepts
Epanalepsis
Simile
Composition
19. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Personification
Sophist
Epanalepsis
20. Opposite of anadiplosis
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Protagoras
Epanalepsis
Anaphora
21. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
False Charge of Fallacy
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Tu Quoque
Correctio
22. beginning repeated at ending
Appeal to Authority
Anadiplosis
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Epanalepsis
23. Is necessary to defend the weak against the strong - Is useful and necessary to the state and the individual because you become a more thoughtful citizen and a more well-rounded person - Is useful to have the tools to recognize good arguments and def
Anaphora
Begging the Question
Rhetoric
Stock Issues
24. Exaggeration
Analogy
(Argument by) Example
Hyperbole
Protagoras
25. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Correctio
Exergasia
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Analogy
26. A manufactured controversy that is motivated by profit or extreme ideology to intentionally create confusion in the public about an issue of scientific fact that is not in dispute by the scientific community. Used to stop debate at the conjectural le
Presumption
Loci of the Preferable
Hyperbole
Manufactroversy
27. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Epanalepsis
Hyperbole
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Red Herring
28. The inference reasons from meaning or lesson of a story to a claim. The warrant usually says 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth'
Tu Quoque
Good Will (Ethos)
Metaphor
(Argument from) Narrative
29. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
Epistrophe
Antithesis
Ill
Argument
30. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue
Checking for Example argument
Example
Toulmin Model
Quantitative (significance)
31. 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'
Epistrophe
(Argument by) Example
Burden of proof
Example
32. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Antithesis
Hyperbole
Formal Logic
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
33. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Structural (inherency)
Deductive Reasoning
Formal Debate
34. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Unrepresentative Sample
Second (or) Third
Informal Debate
Locus of Essence
35. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Checking for Example argument
Accident
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Stock Issues
36. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Locus of Quantity
Metaphor
Turn
Structural (inherency)
37. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Value Hierarchies
Ad Hominem
Attitudinal (inherency)
38. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Structural (inherency)
Rhetoric
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Erotema
39. Arguing that the conclusion of an argument must be untrue because there is a fallacy in the reasoning. (Just because the premises may not be true - does not mean that the conclusion has to be false)
Sign
Fallacy Fallacy
Rhetoric
Non Sequitur
40. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Grounds (or data)
Good Will (Ethos)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Claim
41. Value Hierarchy Visualization
Term I/Term II
Exergasia
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
First
42. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Burden of proof
(Argument by) Analogy
43. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Appeal to Ignorance
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Metaphor
44. Opposite of Epistrophe
Anaphora
Metaphor
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Status
45. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Qualitative (Stasis)
Questionable Analogy
Rhetoric
Burden of proof
46. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Ad Hominem
False Charge of Fallacy
Hyperbole
47. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Manufactroversy
Epanalepsis
Categorical (Syllogism)
Value Hierarchies
48. The list that builds
Hasty Generalization
Incrementum
Corax
Composition
49. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Value Hierarchies
Unequivocal
(Argument from) Testimony
Division
50. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue
Epistrophe
Burden of Rejoinder
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Honesty - Dedication - Courage