Public Debating
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25 Questions

1. A legitimate generalization is applied to a particular case in an absolute manner

2. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C

3. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon experience that is specific to a particular culture

4. The list that builds

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

6. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.

7. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words - phrases - or clauses

8. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)

9. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest

10. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost

11. Are the terms of the metaphor coherent - or does it tell a story or paint a picure that fails to make sense internally?

12. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work

13. Ending of one repeated at the beginning of another

14. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)

15. What vehicles and tenors share

16. If A then B A Therefore B

17. Values more over less in terms of quantitative outcomes (the greatest good for the greatest number)

18. Bases inferences on what we know of how people act in a rational/predictable way - in order to determine the truth

19. Associated words or ideas with a vehicle or tenor

20. Ammending a term or phrase you have just read

21. 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

22. Incorrectly assuming that one choice or another must be made when other choices are available or when no choice must be made

23. Opposite of Epistrophe

24. Opposite of Epanalepsis

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