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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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






2. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?






3. A or B Not A Therefore - B






4. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.






5. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor






6. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)






7. Qualitative significance is part of what stock issue?






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






9. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives






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?






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






12. Asks - 'is it?' Involves a question of fact (past - present - future)






13. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






14. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?






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






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






17. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins






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.






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






20. Opposite of anadiplosis






21. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____






22. beginning repeated at ending






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






24. Exaggeration






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






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






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






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'






29. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas






30. Involves a large number of people; from Ill stock issue - Produces a large amount of harm; from Ill stock issue






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'






32. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity






33. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed






34. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show






35. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members






36. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another






37. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective






38. Metaphors use ____ and ____






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)






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






41. Value Hierarchy Visualization






42. If A then B Not A Therefore not B






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






44. Opposite of Epistrophe






45. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones






46. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning






47. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.






48. The list that builds






49. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)






50. Uses emotional appeal instead of evidence to argue