Definitional
Causal
Resemblance
Evaluation and Ethical
Proposal
100
An argument in which the writer and an audience agree on the meaning of the category
What is Simple Categorical Arguments?
100
There are three different types of phenomenon associated with a causal relationship; onetime phenomenon,puzzling trend phenomenon, and
What is recurring phenomenon?
100
This is high when using resemblance arguments and the differences between the two things being compared are often so significant that the argument may collapse under close examination
What is Risk?
100
The main conceptual difference between an evaluation argument and a definition argument involves the second term being this
What is a good member of its class?
100
This type of proposal argument proposes an action to solve some kind of local or immediate problem
What is a practical proposal?
200
Definitional arguments have a two part structure that follows this type of structure
What is criteria-match?
200
This is a type of strategy that is used to explain a causal link that can not be linked directly
What is induction?
200
This type of resemblance argument has the power to get an audience's attention like virtually no other persuasion strategy but are seldom sufficient to provide full understanding
What is argument by analogy?
200
This step is the most crucial first step in developing your criteria of a evaluation argument is
What is placing your contested thing in the smallest category?
200
The one argumentative strategy that is generic to all proposal arguments is
What is calling your reader's attention to a problem?
300
This type of definition defines a term by placing it within the next larger class or category and then showing the specific attributes that distinguish the term from other terms within the same category
What is Aristotelian?
300
Precedence alone is no proof of causality and we are guilty of this type of fallacy whenever we are swayed to believe that one thing causes another just becomes it come first
What is post hoc fallacy?
300
This type of resemblance argument is similar to an analogy argument which compares two phenomena but the second part of the comparison is usually a past event in which some sort of decision was reached, often a moral, legal, or political decision
What is argument by precedent?
300
By using an ethical issue in your argument it forces our articulation of our
What is deeply held beliefs and richest feelings?
300
If your audience acknowledges the seriousness of your problem and has been waiting for a solution then one way to convince your audience is to
What is show a solution that will work and does not cost too much?
400
All of the criteria that must be present for something to belong to the category being defined
What is sufficient criteria?
400
Arguing that the Columbine shootings were due to violent video games or Marilyn Manson music is an example of this kind of causal argument
What is speculation about possible cause?
400
This is a common danger of a resemblance argument
What is a disanalogy?
400
Ethical arguments address the problem of
What is right and wrong?
400
A prominent feature of a proposal argument portrayed as an advocacy poster or advertisement is that it appeals to the audience through this
What is a direct call for a course of action?
500
A type of definition that can be measured empirically and are not subject to problems of context and disputed criteria.
What is operational definition?
500
To say that all the blame for recent school shootings comes from the shooter's playing violent video games is a type of
What is fallacy of oversimplified cause?
500
Analogies that are used to evoke an emotion but are quickly abandoned before the readers awareness of a disanalogies is
What is an undeveloped analogy?
500
A common problem in making evaluation arguments is the problem of standards. This involves comparing what is commonplace to
What is ideal?
500
Showing how your proposed action follows a principle valued by your audience or belongs to a category valued by your audience is the goal of this type of claim type for a proposal
What is argument from principle or category?
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