The statement that "your face is a fallacy" is an example of this type of fallacy.
What is ad hominem?
100
This describes a set of commonly held beliefs about what is likely to happen, what is ordinary, and what is to be expected.
What is probability
100
This concept describes an argumentation case that has met its burden of proof.
What is a prima facie case?
100
This concept describes the support for a claim that is developed by the decision makers' perception that the arguer reveals competence, trustworthiness, goodwill, and dynamism.
What is credibility?
100
This person famously claimed that "you can defend anything, as long as it well defended"?
Who is Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking. (Arron Eckhart also works).
200
This fallacy is one that claims something is good because it is popular.
What is the popularity appeal (argumentum ad populum)
200
This describes the way that human use shared symbol systems as the basis of meaning making.
What are language interpretation strategies?
200
The notion in U.S. courts that someone is "innocent until proven guilty" is an example of this concept.
What is presumption?
200
This describes the process of setting or framing an audience's state of mind.
What is ethos?
200
This argument type is the most difficult to prove.
What is argument by cause?
300
The following is an example of what logical pattern: "You must read to pass your O-Chem exam. You have read. Therefore, you might pass your O-Chem exam."
What is modus ponens.
300
These are questions around which there is no controversy.
What are facts?
300
This describes the burden of an opposing party, after a case has been made, to respond to and refute an argument.
What is the burden of rejoinder?
300
This type of credibility is developed by making direct statements about yourself.
What is secondary credibility?
300
This concept describes the faculty to discover, in any given case, all the available means of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
400
This Latin phrase means "denying the consequent"
What is modus tollens.
400
A statement that occupies the argumentative ground until sufficient reason is adduced against it.
What is presumption?
400
This concept describes the cooperative process of critizicizing arguments to strengthen claims
What is refutation?
400
This type of credibility is gained by using another person's credibility as the grounds for your argument.
What is Secondary credibility?
400
This type of debate features ad hominem attacks, opinion, and an abundance of humor.
What is parliamentary debate?
500
This Latin phrase means "after this, therefore because of this"
What is "post hoc, ergo propter hoc"?
500
This Greek word describes lines of argument or places from which argument can be built.
What is Topoi?
500
Four step refutation encompasses these four steps:
1. State position being refuted.
2. State your claim.
3. State your evidence.
4. State your reasoning, or how your claim implicates the position being refuted.
500
This describes credibility you develop by the way you support, develop, and argue your claims.
What is indirect credibility?
500
This work by Aristotle was one of the first comprehensive surveys of propositional logic.