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1. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Personification
Locus of Essence
(Argument from) Testimony
Tu Quoque
2. 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'
Situationally flawed
Refutation
Quantitative (significance)
(Argument from) Testimony
3. 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
Categorical (Syllogism)
Rhetoric
Tools of Refutation
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
4. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Second (or) Third
Red Herring
Ad Populum
Good Moral Character
5. Arguing that one thing caused another without sufficient evidence of a causal relationship.
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Begging the Question
Questionable Cause
Modus Ponens
6. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C
Epanalepsis
Charisma
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
7. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth
Corax
Intelligence
(Argument of ) General probability
Special Topoi
8. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Second (or) Third
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Commonplaces
Fallacy Fallacy
9. 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'
Hasty Generalization
Categorical (Syllogism)
Hyperbole
(Argument by) Example
10. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Equivocation
Debate Resolutions
Fallacies
Direct Refutation
11. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Categorical (Syllogism)
Locus of Quantity
(Argument from) Sign
12. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
False Charge of Fallacy
Ad Hominem
Charisma
Tu Quoque
13. 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:
Sign
Blame
Division
Erotema
14. If A then B B Therefore - A
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Syllogism
Good Moral Character
(Fallacy of) Accident
15. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Cure
Syllogism
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Narrative
16. Agreeing to some of the arguments made by your opponents so that you can focus on others
Conceding Arguments
Checking for Testimony argument
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Sophist
17. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another
Cost
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Litotes
Anadiplosis
18. 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
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Disassociation of Concepts
Situationally flawed
Refutation Potential
19. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses
Ill
Epanalepsis
Unrepresentative Sample
Parallelism
20. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Rhetoric
Metaphor
Unrepresentative Sample
21. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Appeal to Authority
(Argument by) Example
Prolepsis
Disassociation of Concepts
22. Civil rights - economic justice - environmental stewardship - government as safety net - worker's rights - diversity
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Commonplaces
Burden of Rejoinder
Example
23. A metaphor that gives attributes to a nonhuman thing
Division
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
Personification
Valid
24. 'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?
Antithesis
Sign
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Checking for Narrative argument
25. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Checking for Analogy argument
Loci of the Preferable
Arguments
Straw Person
26. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Ethos
Decorum
(Argument by) Example
Procedural (Stasis)
27. The opposite of hyperbole - this is a deliberate understatement for effect.
Anaphora
Modus Tollens
Litotes
(Argument of ) General probability
28. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Intelligence
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Protagoras
29. 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?
(Fallacy of) Accident
Attitudinal (inherency)
Checking for Sign argument
Term I/Term II
30. What vehicles and tenors share
Special Topoi
Anaphora
Associated Commonplaces
Epanalepsis
31. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Structural (inherency)
Exergasia
Epanalepsis
32. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner
False Charge of Fallacy
(Fallacy of) Accident
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Arguments
33. beginning repeated at ending
Categorical (Syllogism)
Special Topoi
Epanalepsis
Rhetoric
34. An explicit metaphor that overtly compares two things - often using the words 'like' or 'as'
Rhetoric
Red Herring
Commonplaces
Simile
35. 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?
Formal Debate
Checking for Example argument
Burden of proof
Erotema
36. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Blame
Unrepresentative Sample
Procedural (Stasis)
Tokenism
37. 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
Formal Debate
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Sophist
38. 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
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Unrepresentative Sample
False Dichotomy
39. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Incrementum
Erotema
Refutation Strategies
40. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Litotes
Analogy
Good Moral Character
Division
41. 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
Composition
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Unequivocal
42. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Deductive Reasoning
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Rhetoric
43. Reasoning from case to case
Litotes
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Analogy
Tools of Refutation
44. 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'
(Argument from) Narrative
Locus of Quantity
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
(Argument from) Testimony
45. Term with higher (positive) value
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Tokenism
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Example
46. Taught by sophists; provides tools to recognize good arguments from bad ones
Rhetoric
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Composition
Mercenary Scientists
47. Set two things in opposition
Sign
Refutation Potential
Associated Commonplaces
Antithesis
48. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Composition
Narrative
49. ______ are hired to create manufactroversy
Stock Issues
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Mercenary Scientists
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
50. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Correctio
False Dichotomy
Second (or) Third
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