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| the informed support of others |
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| a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, minor premise, and conclusion |
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| the time it takes for a condition to occur |
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| being regarded as believable and worthy of adherence |
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| the clash of two opposing claims |
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| english philosopher who made major contributions to argumentation |
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| a statement you make that you want others to accept and act upon to gain their adherence |
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| the evidence for your claim; also known as evidence, grounds, support, proof. |
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| Tells how much force the argument carries. This is indicated by the words always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom or never. |
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| a kind of logical circuit breaker. It usually is indicated by the word "unless." |
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| A stock issue expressing the quantitative or qualitative degree of a problem or condition. Often a numerical measurement of the problem – how many are affected |
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| an attitude, belief, or value that prevents us from solving the proble, mindsets that would block certain policies or laws. |
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| a stock issue expressing the technical or workable nature of a course of action (plan) |
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| Identifies the “scope” of the problem. Think in terms of “how bad” the problem is. |
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| The plan of the affirmative must be related to the topic to make a legitimate presentation |
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| Planks in the affirmative case that remove the barriers to put your resolution in effect |
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| To directly oppose the arguments of your opponent. |
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| the components of good policy resolutions |
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| Agent, Action verb, Actual Event |
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| Expert opinion, in the form of quotations, taken from literature and the Internet, to support a debater’s reasoning |
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All the facts, data, evidence, examples, or chains of reason used to support the warrant.
Additional evidence or source qualification to support, explain, or justify reasoning. |
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| Error in reasoning where the speaker and not the arguments are attacked |
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| A fallacy of distraction where two choices are given when in fact there are three or more options . |
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| An inductive fallacy where the sample is too small to support an inductive generalization about a population |
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| post hoc ergo propter hoc |
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| Causal fallacy meaning “because one thing follows another, it is held to cause the other” |
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| A fallacy involving a series of increasingly unacceptable consequences. |
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| collections of people in the process of interracting and making critical decisions. |
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| a statement of judgement that identifies the issues of a controversy. |
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| general conceptions of what are desirable ways of behaving. |
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Claim - provable issue
Data/Reasons - support for claim
Warrent - underlying belief behind data and claim |
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| indicates that there is a problem with the status quo |
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Significance
Harm
Inherency
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Solvency |
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| laws or supreme court decisions |
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| the reality that the affirmative policy is simply not occuring. |
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| who will innitiate the plan |
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Agency - who initiates the plan
Mandates - specify what your plan is
Enforcements - how we will make sure plan works
Funding - how much cost
Addendum - any points of clarification |
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| the process of discrediting someone's argument by revealing weaknesses in it. |
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| character, trustworthy, credibility |
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| drawing conclusions from incomplete evidence |
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| building from accepted truths to specific conclusions |
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