Public Debating MCQs (Chapterwise Multiple Choice Questions)

The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing

Gorgias

Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)

Term I (Disassociation Pair)

Claim

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Claim

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'X is an sign of Y' is what arg's warrant?

Sign

Decorum

Conceding Arguments

Questionable Analogy

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Sign

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Asks - 'of what kind is it?' Involves a question of the quality of the act - whether it is good or bad.

Qualitative (Stasis)

Situationally flawed

Agree on Commonality then refute

Quantitative (significance)

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Qualitative (Stasis)

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These seats or commonplaces of argument suggest inferences that arguers might make that are based on the habits of thought and value hierarchies that everyone shares

Tu Quoque

Anadiplosis

Loci of the Preferable

(Argument by) Analogy

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Loci of the Preferable

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Good Moral Character

Appeal to Authority

Burden of proof

Honesty - Dedication - Courage

Cost

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Honesty - Dedication - Courage

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

Fallacy Fallacy

Valid

Cicero's Four Stasis Points

Attitudinal (inherency)

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Attitudinal (inherency)

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A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction

Arguments

Stock Issues

Exergasia

Argument

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Arguments

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

Sophist

Consistency

Red Herring

Shifting the Burden of Proof

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Consistency

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_______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.

Post hoc - ergo propter hoc

Ill

Popular Democracy

Definitional (Stasis)

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Popular Democracy

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Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)

Ill

Fallacies

Value Hierarchies

Gorgias

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Fallacies

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