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The Nature of Arguments
Evidence Schmevidence
Case Building
Arguments and Argumentation
Grab Bag
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This is the explicit appeal produced by an argument.
What is a claim?
100
This is a claim without support.
What is an assertion?
100
An elaborated combination of claims and support put together in a way that is meant to be persuasive describes this concept.
What is a case?
100
The paralleling of two opposing claims stated as a question describes this concept.
What is an issue?
100
This is the name of the band who played the musical ditty "4 Chords" previewed in class last week.
What is the Axis of Awesome?
200
This is additional data used to certify the assumptions expressed in the warrants or the ground.
What is the backing
200
These include mean, median, mode, and standard deviation
What are measures of central tendency?
200
This burden describes the requirement to refute a case to stay in contention.
What is the burden of rejoinder?
200
This statement represents what type of claim: The U.S. ought not execute persons convicted of capital crimes.
What is a value claim? OUGHT= moral obligation
200
This is Nick's office! (building and room number)
What is AS-380
300
The basis on which the claim could be questioned by decision makers is this concept.
What is the rebuttal?
300
This expresses the frequency with which events occur by pure chance or the likelihood that something exceeds pure chance.
What is probability?
300
The responsibility to initiate an argument and set out a case sufficient in argumentative strength and breadth to bring the decision makers to doubt their presumptions describes this burden.
What is the burden of proof?
300
The explicit appeal that you ask decision makers to accept or reject is best described in this concept.
What is a proposition?
300
The following represents what type of syllogism? All Ps are Q. R is an P. Therefore, R is a Q.
What is a categorical syllogism
400
The ad populum argument is an example of this argument type.
What is argument from authority?
400
These are undeveloped instances used in an argument by generalization.
What is an example.
400
This describes the preoccupation of the ground, which implies that it must stand good till some sufficient reason is adduced against it.
What is presumption?
400
The collection of noises, movements, and marks people utter or set down on a surface describes this.
What is language?
400
The following sentence violates this rule of grammar: Tomorrow, we will visit grandmother, tour the park, and then we're going home.
What is parallel sentence construction. (Verb gerunds is also correct. The proper sentence should read: Tomorrow, we will visit grandmother, tour the park, and go home. OR Tomorrow, we will visit grandmother and tour the park. Then, we will go home.
500
The Composite Index of Leading Indicators, which is made up of 10 economic components whose changes tend to precede economic changes, relies on this type of warrant (or type of argument).
What is argument by sign?
500
This statistic reports the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results.
What is the margin of error?
500
Topoi is greek for what concept?
What is a commonplace?
500
The social dialogue in which people seek to come to understanding by opening themseles to the thinking of others with an interest in learning and changing describes this concept.
What is dialectic?
500
Your textbook authors all taught at this public, U.S. university.
What is the University of Utah?