The responsibility to initiate an argument and set out a case sufficient to make the decision makers question their presumption
What is burden of proof?
100
Incorrect logic.
What is a fallacy?
100
Ultimately, all scientific argument aims at applying findings to a larger group of the same type.
What is generalization?
100
Much of the sacred literature in Judaism and Christianity makes arguments in this form.
What is narrative?
200
The weakness or barrier that keeps a new plan from passing. This can be structural or attitudinal.
What is inherency?
200
Efficient and effective refutation can be accomplished in this number of steps.
What is four?
200
Pointing out a fallacy in someone's argument is not sufficient for refutation. You must offer _____ that the argument is false.
What is proof?
200
Scientific studies are designed so that their results can be tested this way.
What is replication?
200
The most important source of evidence in Judeo-Christian argument.
What is the text?
300
The way that we should go about fixing the problem.
What is solvency?
300
Outlining responses one-by-one to an opponent's arguments.
What is blocking?
300
Joe and Adam are arguing about dinner. Joe says "we should eat at Woodranch, it's the best bar-b-que around." Adam responds with "you're an idiot!"
What is ad hominem?
300
The most commonly relied upon evidence in scientific argument.
What are statistics?
300
Miracles are taken as an indication of the existence of God.
What is an argument by sign?
400
The advantages to accepting the claim.
What is desirability?
400
Helping others change their way of seeing an issue so that they are open to new ideas and will consider your argument.
What is framebreaking?
400
Believing events are related because they are related chronologically.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
400
One of the primary commonplaces for scientific argument.
What is cause and effect?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Closely related to analogy, this unique religious argument calls decision makers to consider alternate views of the same phenomenon and can yield a variety of reasonable but incompatible interpretations.
What is a paradox?
500
The means by which you quantify the harms occurring in the status quo.
What is significance?
500
Refutation is not something our culture tends to be good at because we place a high value on something else.
What is agreement?
500
To assume as true what you are trying to prove.
What is begging the question?
500
Scientific argumentation deals in this kind of claim.
What is fact?
500
The parable of the Good Samaritan is an illustration of this form of argument.