General Public Debating MCQs

1. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction

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

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

4. Ideas repeated

5. What order does conjectural stasis usually fall in when arguing?

6. Good Moral Character

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

8. 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

9. Beginning repeated at ending

10. After this - therefore on account of this

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

12. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue

13. An argument that follows proper logical form

14. Specific evidence or reason to support the claim (often introduced with the words 'because' or 'since')

15. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original

16. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)

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

18. The proposition or conclusion that the arguer is advancing

19. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings

20. 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)

21. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive

22. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C

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

24. 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

25. Who developed the argument from general probability?

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

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

28. Opposite of Anaphora