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1. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Narrative
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Value-Oriented Arguments
(Fallacy of) Accident
2. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Enthymeme
Rhetoric
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Correctio
3. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Mixed Metaphor
Tu Quoque
Composition
Charisma
4. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Appeal to Ignorance
Fallacies
Modus Ponens
Associated Commonplaces
5. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins
Debate Resolutions
Rhetoric
Stock Issues
Locus of Essence
6. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Questionable Cause
Claim
Toulmin Model
7. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
Formal Logic
Straw Person
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Example
8. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Direct Refutation
Consistency
Appeal to Authority
Decorum
9. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Hyperbole
Value Hierarchies
Unrepresentative Sample
(Argument of ) General probability
10. What order do definitional and qualitative stasis usually fall into when put into an argument?
Structural (inherency)
Situationally flawed
Second
Personification
11. Leaving no doubt - unambiguous
Popular Democracy
Unequivocal
Loci of the Preferable
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
12. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Questionable Analogy
Grounds (or data)
Exergasia
Checking for Cause argement
13. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing
Claim
Value-Oriented Arguments
Correctio
(Argument by) Example
14. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Anadiplosis
Erotema
Blame
15. Repetition of the ending of one clause or sentence at the beginning of another.
Anadiplosis
Antithesis
Personification
Hyperbole
16. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.
Debate Resolutions
Situationally flawed
Refutation
Unrepresentative Sample
17. 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
Protagoras
First
Small Sample
Sound
18. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Non Sequitur
Fallacy Fallacy
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Agree on Commonality then refute
19. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture
Questionable Cause
(Special Topoi for) Science
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Associated Commonplaces
20. Letters to the editor - group discussions - talk show
Informal Debate
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
Anadiplosis
Appeal to Authority
21. Ask a rhetorical question
Ethos
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Composition
Erotema
22. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
Plato
Grounds (or data)
Litotes
Corax
23. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____
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24. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Rhetoric
Charisma
Agree on Commonality then refute
False Dichotomy
25. 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.
Appeal to Authority
Categorical (Syllogism)
Checking for Analogy argument
Hyperbole
26. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C
Categorical (Syllogism)
Protagoras
Non Sequitur
Simile
27. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Hasty Generalization
Rhetoric
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Warrant
28. 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
Second (or) Third
Checking for Narrative argument
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
29. Term with higher (positive) value
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Formal Debate
Intelligence
30. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Structural (inherency)
Plato
False Charge of Fallacy
Tu Quoque
31. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Turn
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
32. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
Categorical (Syllogism)
Locus of Quality
(Special Topoi for) Democrats
33. Opposite of Hyperbole
Litotes
Tu Quoque
Corax
Accident
34. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read
Sign
Correctio
Loci of the Preferable
Questionable Cause
35. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Antithesis
Rhetoric
Metaphor
Associated Commonplaces
36. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Intelligence
Checking for Testimony argument
Straw Person
(Evaluation Criteria for) Value-Oriented Arguments
37. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.
Epistrophe
Burden of Rejoinder
Refutation Strategies
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
38. beginning repeated at ending
Hyperbole
Unsound
Attitudinal (inherency)
Epanalepsis
39. 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
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Ill
Second (or) Third
Disassociation of Concepts
40. 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
Refutation
Ambiguity
Antithesis
Hasty Generalization
41. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Situationally flawed
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Anaphora
Popular Democracy
42. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Checking for Analogy argument
Litotes
Status
Equivocation
43. Anticipatory refutation - in which you preempt an opposition argument before it is even offered.
Plato
Division
Begging the Question
Prolepsis
44. An argument with true premises and valid form
Parallelism
Hasty Generalization
Sound
Rhetoric
45. Accepting an argument that you should believe something is true just because the majority believes it is true.
Ad Populum
Structural (inherency)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Mercenary Scientists
46. If A then B Not A Therefore not B
Emotionally Charged (Language)
False Dichotomy
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Modus Ponens
47. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor
Locus of Quantity
Corax
Commonplaces
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
48. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Disassociation of Concepts
Appeal to Authority
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
(Argument from) Cause
49. What vehicles and tenors share
Deductive Reasoning
Epistrophe
Tu Quoque
Associated Commonplaces
50. Opposite of Epanalepsis
Example
Anadiplosis
Unequivocal
Refutation Strategies