Fallacies
Name the logical fallacy:
"64% of registered voters support stricter gun control laws in the United States; therefore, we should ban assault rifles."
What is the bandwagon fallacy/appeal to populace/ad populum?
The acronym for the components of an argument?
What is A.R.E.S.R?
The length of a rebuttal speech.
The point in the debate when the framework is articulated.
When is after the roadmap in the first constructive speeches?
The total length of a debate.
How long is 30 minutes?
Name the logical fallacy:
"Income tax receipts increased by 58% from 1981 to 1989 following the Economic Recovery and Tax Act; therefore, tax cuts increase tax revenue."
What is correlation not causation/false cause?
The first component of an argument.
What is an assertion?
The team whose rebuttalist speaks last.
What is the proposition team?
The route that the opposition team can take instead of advocating for the status quo.
What is a counterplan/countermodel?
The length of a constructive speech.
Name the logical fallacy:
"With regards to the question of whether to impose sanctions, it is either sanctions or appeasement, sanctions or caving to autocracy."
What is false dichotomy/false choice?
A type of evidence.
What are anecdotes, statistics, studies, or examples?
The number of clash points to analyze.
What is two or three?
The four aspects of a plan.
What are actor, mechanism, timeframe, and budget?
The length of the POI.
Name the logical fallacy:
"According to Drs. Steffie Woolhandler, and David U. Himmelstein, both distinguished professors of public health, single payer healthcare would save 20,000 lives every year. Therefore, the US should implement single-payer healthcare."
What is appeal to authority?
The first aspect of a refutation.
What is restating the other team's argument?
The four parts of a rebuttal speech.
What are hook, roadmap, clash analysis, and weighing?
The four aspects of framework.
What are definitions, limits, plans, and weighing mechanisms/roles of the ballot/burdens?
The three types of topics.
What are policy, value, and fact motions?
Name the logical fallacy:
"Socialized medicine works poorly, and single payer healthcare is a type of socialized medicine; therefore, single payer healthcare should not be implemented."
What is the division fallacy?
The second part of a constructive speech (i.e. right after the hook).
What is roadmapping?
The four types of impact calculus
What are magnitude, probability, timeframe, and reversibility?
What are education and competitiveness?
The term for the mindset of a judge at the start of a debate.
What is tabula rasa?