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Problems
Solution
Legalese
Latin
Potpourri
100
The problem is serious enough to call for this.
What is "call for action"?
100
Words from someone who knows a great deal about the problem or is directly affected by the problem.
What is "expert testimony"?
100
Damage in lives, limbs, or finances
What is "harms"?
100
An appeal to emotion.
What is pathos?
100
The process of being left out or left behind.
What is "exclusion"?
200
Numbers that show percentages and increases or decreases in various ways.
What is "statistics"?
200
A plan that both parties accept.
What is a "compromise"?
200
Determination if the good coming from a solution is worth the expense.
What is "cost-benefits analysis"?
200
An appeal to someone's sense of right, duty, or morals.
What is ethos?
200
The process of being a part of.
What is "inclusion"?
300
Harms, solvency, and inherency.
What are three elements in the "stock issues" approach to an argument.
300
A plan that is offered as another consideration.
What is a "counterplan"?
300
The existing state of affairs.
What is "status quo"?
300
An appeal to one's sense of logic.
What is logos?
300
To argue in favor of. Sometimes a minor will have one of these to speak on his/her behalf in court.
What is an "advocate"?
400
Liberties that belong to an individual.
What are personal rights?
400
The degree to which a solution will cause a break in routine or impede normal activity.
What is "degree of disruption"?
400
Proposal solves the problem.
What is "solvency"?
400
An authentic problem.
What is prima facie?
400
Weighing competing arguments in order to find the proposal that has more advantages and fewer disadvantages.
What is a "comparative advantage analysis"?
500
An exchange of opposing or diverging views.
What is "argument"?
500
Having the power to produce the desired effect.
What is "efficacious"?
500
Why do good people allow bad things to happen? Is the solution proposed the ONLY solution? Will the system take care of the problem eventually?
What is inherency?
500
Art of discourse that informs, persuades, or motivates.
What is rhetoric?
500
Not only knowing what you are talking about, but also appearing to know what you are talking about.
What is "extrinsic ethos"?