Common Topic 1
These are words that have the same or similar definitions
What are synonyms?
Statistics are more authoritative when they pull numbers from this size and range of sample?
What is large and random sample size?
This subtopic of comparison argues your point based on the lack of similarities between two things.
What is difference?
"If A, then B.
not A, therefore, not B" is an example of what:
What is denying the antecendant?
Aristotle's definition of Rhetoric:
What is "In any given situation the available means of persuasion"
This definition technique points of characteristics of something that make it different than the other things in the same category.
What is Species?
This type of testimony technique offers evidence that disproves or contradict a thesis.
What is a counter example.
arguing that taking a test is "just like a marriage" is an example of
What is a false analogy?
This is the formula for antecedent and consequence
What is: "Given that A, it follows that B"
These thinkers focused on the sound and style of their message rather than the content.
Who are the sophists?
This is the history and origin of a word
This fallacy of Testimony was exemplified by a commercial of Jennifer Aniston using Aveno Lotion,
What is faulty appeal to authority?
This subtopic argues that you can prove the relative worth of something by comparing if it is stronger or weaker, or more or less likely to happen.
What is degree.
This method argues that as one variable decreases the other decreases in the same amount.
What is Spiral Method?
This type of logic begins with a specific premise and applies it to a greater body of things.
What is inductive logic?
This fallacy is an a miscommunication caused by using multiple definitions of the same word
What is Equivocation?
By using this type of argument, you are referring to the past to support a claim or interpretation in the present.
What is precedent?
This latin phrase argues that if something is true of the stronger it is also true of the weaker.
What is "a fortiori" ?
This Relationship subtopic argues the exact opposite of a statement.
What is Contrary?
A thesis must be able to be:
What is proven true or false?
This definition technique describes how something happens or occurs.
What is a procedural or operational definition?
This is an oddity in occurrence that doesn't fit a pattern.
What is an anomaly?
This fallacy appeals to someone's sense of eliteness.
What is snob appeal?
What is: "Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc"