Great Thinkers
Parts of an Argument
Stock Issues
That's Debatable
Theories of Argument
100
This classical thinker wrote the Prior Analytics and developed the syllogism and enthymeme.
Who is Aristotle?
100
This statement made about persons, conditions, or events says that support is available to provide a reason for the claim.
What is grounds?
100
This stock issue says that the plan solves the harms and overcomes the barrier.
What is solvency?
100
This argument, written by Thomas Aquinas, was meant to prove the existence of God through reason.
What is the cosmological argument.
100
This is a single unit of argumentation, composed of a claim and its support.
What is an argument?
200
Building on the work of Aristotle, this argument scholar said that arguments must have a claim, support, and a warrant.
Who is Stephen Toulmin?
200
This part of an argument modifies the force of a claim.
What is a qualifier?
200
This stock issue states that problems will occur in the absence of the plan.
What is harms?
200
Developed in ancient Greece, this argument proves that evil troubles religious claims for an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God.
What is the Epicurean Riddle.
200
This is the dialogic communication process of advancing, criticizing, and modifying claims to enhance the quality of public life in the commons.
What is argumentation?
300
The mind behind "communicative rationality," this twenty-first century model developed public sphere theory
Who is Jurgen Habermas?
300
This part of argument justifies using the data as a basis for the claim.
What is a warrant?
300
This stock issue states that the affirmative plan of action falls within the parameters of the resolution.
What is topicality?
300
This branch of theology claims that arguments for God are best found in sacred texts.
What is revealed theology?
300
This type of claim contains a subject term and a judgment (or value) term.
What is a value claim?
400
The author of the "cosmological argument," this Christian thinker also popularized the Syllogism for a 13th century audience.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
400
This argument part offers more specific data for the warrant or the data.
What is backing?
400
This stock issue proves that the harms are great in magnitude, immediate in timeframe or proximity, or likely to occur and thus merit the action of the plan.
What is significance?
400
((Not on test)) The Pons and Fleischmann controversy surrounded two electrochemists from the University of Utah who claimed that had uncovered this scientific achievement?
What is cold fusion?
400
This statement represents this type of reasoning: "The Jewish experience of the concentration camp is the closest encounter that modern humans have to hell."
What is argument by analogy.
500
((Not on final)): This nineteenth century figure is the titular figure responsible for developing the logic behind boolean search logic.
Who is George Boole?
500
This qualification of the original claim answers the rebuttal.
What is a reservation?
500
This stock issue says that the harms will not be ameliorated in the absence of the plan or that a burden exists to the passage of the plan.
What is Inherency?
500
This driving force in the development of the bourgeois public sphere was made possible by the advent of the printing press.
What is the circulation of newspapers (or just "newspapers," or "newspaper readership" or "newspaper circulation")?
500
This mode of hypothetical reasoning is also called the way that affirms by affirming.
What is modus ponies?
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