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Vocabulary Lists
Advanced English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract language | language expressing a quality apart from a specific object or even |
| Ad hominem | "against the man" attacking the arguer rather than the argument |
| Ad populum | "to the people" playing on the prejusices of the audience |
| Analogy | a comparison in which a thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain way because it is similar to the thing in other ways |
| Appeal to tradition | a propoasl that something should continue because it has traditionally existed or been done that way |
| Argument | a process of reasoning and advancing proof about issues on which conflicting views may be held |
| Audience | those who hear an argument |
| Authoritative Warrant | a warrant based on the crediility or trustworthiness of the source |
| Authority | a respectable, reliable source of evidence |
| Backing | the assurances upon which a warrant or assumption is based |
| Begging the question | making a statement that assumes that the issue being argued has already been decided |
| Cause and Effect | reason that assumes one evern or condition can being about another |
| Claim | the conclusion of an argument |
| Claim of fact | a claim that asserts something exists, has existed, or will exist |
| Claim of Policy | a claim asserting that specific courses of action should be institued as solutions to problems |
| Claim of value | a claim that asserts some things are more or less desirable that others |
| Cliche | a worn out expression or idea |
| slippery slope | predicting without justification that one step in a process will leave unavoidably to a second, generally undesirable step |
| slogan | an attention getting expression |
| statistics | information expressed in numerical form |
| stipulative definition | a definition that makes clear that it will explore a particular area of meaning of a term of issue |
| straw man | disputing a view similar to, but not the same as, that of the arguer's opponent |
| style | choices in words and sentence structure that make a writer's language distinctive |
| substantive warrant | a warrant based on beliefs about the reliability of factual evidence |
| support | any material that serves to prove and issure or claim |
| syllogism | a formula of deductive argument consisting of three propsitions |
| two wrongs make a right | diverting attention from the issue by introducing a new point |
| values | conceptions or ideas that act as standards for jusings what is right or wrong, worthwhile or worthless, beautiful or ugly, good or bad |
| warrant | a general principle or assumption that establishes a connection between the support and the claim |
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