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1. The process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it or presenting a counterargument
Epanalepsis
Epanalepsis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Refutation
2. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Conjectural (Stasis)
Ethos
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Anaphora
3. Deliberate correction
Consistency
Corax
Correctio
Quantitative (significance)
4. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Decorum
Checking for Narrative argument
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Metaphor
5. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Decorum
Fallacies
Sign
6. 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
Metaphor
Epistrophe
Manufactroversy
Division
7. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Epistrophe
Syllogism
Categorical (Syllogism)
8. Oppostite of Litotes
Blame
Second
Hyperbole
Burden of Rejoinder
9. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Presumption
Anadiplosis
Sign
Epistrophe
10. 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'
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
(Argument from) Testimony
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Checking for Cause argement
11. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Epistrophe
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Cost
12. Are there enough examples to prove that point? Are the examples skewed toward one type of thing? Are the examples unambiguous? Could it be that the connection of general and specific doesn't hold in this case?
Checking for Example argument
(Argument from) Cause
Ambiguity
Locus of Quality
13. Understatement
Loci of the Preferable
Direct Refutation
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Litotes
14. Ending repeated
Refutation Potential
Epistrophe
Sound
Questionable Analogy
15. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Popular Democracy
Locus of Quantity
Good Moral Character
Rhetoric
16. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Antithesis
Term I/Term II
False Charge of Fallacy
17. If A then B Not B Therefore not A
Red Herring
Presumption
Modus Tollens
Correctio
18. Fallacious argument from specific to general without sufficient evidence - Draws a conclusion about all the members of a group based on the knowledge of some members
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Hasty Generalization
Ad Hominem
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
19. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Fallacies
Debate Resolutions
Division
Turn
20. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Tisias
Intelligence
Cost
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
21. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Example
Analogy
Attitudinal (inherency)
Metaphor
22. Wrote 'On Not Being' and 'In Defense of Helen'
Parallelism
Gorgias
Appeal to Ignorance
False Charge of Fallacy
23. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction
Litotes
Rhetoric
Blame
Argument
24. 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
Grounds (or data)
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
Shifting the Burden of Proof
(Special Topoi for) Science
25. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Burden of Rejoinder
Quantitative (significance)
Red Herring
Hasty Generalization
26. '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?
Anaphora
Example
Locus of Quantity
Procedural (Stasis)
27. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
Fallacies
(Argument by) Analogy
Hyperbole
Isocrates
28. 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)
Fallacy Fallacy
Unequivocal
Arguments
Informal Debate
29. The list that builds
Ill
Locus of Quality
Protagoras
Incrementum
30. Are there associated commonplaces for this metaphor that can be turned against the arguer?
Direct Refutation
Begging the Question
Modus Ponens
Refutation Potential
31. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Agree on Commonality then refute
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Correctio
Metaphor
32. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Good Will (Ethos)
Formal Debate
Questionable Analogy
Correctio
33. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Anadiplosis
Deductive Reasoning
Tu Quoque
Isocrates
34. Accepting the word of an alleged authority when we should not because the person does not have expertise on this particular issue or s/he cannot be trusted to give an unbiased opinion.
(Argument by) Example
Appeal to Authority
Modus Ponens
Attitudinal (inherency)
35. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry
Valid
Sophist
Argument
Formal Logic
36. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Straw Person
Mercenary Scientists
Unsound
Personification
37. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.
Appeal to Ignorance
Narrative
Intelligence
Tu Quoque
38. 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
Correctio
Good Moral Character
Ill
Value-Oriented Arguments
39. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Refutation Potential
Stasis
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Non Sequitur
40. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Claim
Questionable Cause
Epanalepsis
Syllogism
41. Who developed the argument from general probability?
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Corax
Value-Oriented Arguments
Locus of Existence
42. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
Anaphora
Conjectural (Stasis)
Structural (inherency)
43. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Antithesis
Good Will (Ethos)
Composition
Unsound
44. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Ambiguity
Good Moral Character
Red Herring
Appeal to Authority
45. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?
Locus of Existence
Anaphora
Ill
Hyperbole
46. 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
Mercenary Scientists
(Argument by) Analogy
Warrant
Appeal to Authority
47. 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?
Checking for Analogy argument
Mixed Metaphor
Checking for Cause argement
Parallelism
48. Concerns new policy being proposed that will remedy the ill outlined and the inherent factors.
Cure
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Refutation
49. 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'
Ill
Valid
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
(Argument by) Example
50. The inference moves from cause to effect or effect to cause - arguing that something is the direct result of something else. The warrant to this argument is usually formatted as: 'X is a form of Y'
(Special Topoi for) Science
Popular Democracy
(Argument from) Cause
Epanalepsis