Debate Vocabulary Test, Ch. 1, 3, 4

A process of examining an issue or question by looking at both sides and weighing the evidence of each is...

• Forensic Progression

• Debate

• Sophistry

• Rhetoric

This terms describes strategies used in or suitable to public discussion

• rhetoric

• sophistry

• forensic

• argumentation

a debate guided by rules that ensure that both sides have equal opportunity to present positions that are backed by some type of evidence and logical analysis

• Informal Debate

• Jackson Debate

• Lincoln Debate

• Formal Debate

The three step process of discussion, persuasion, and debate in dealing with controversial issues

• Sophistry

• Propositions

• Formal Debate

• Forensic Progresssion

Reasoning in support of something as an effective means of discovering truth

• Rhetoric

• Argumentation

• Propositions

• Refute

The process of examining a subject is known as the

• Rhetoric

• Socratic method

• Refute

• Debate

the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion

• Argumentation

• Debate

• Rhetoric

• Sophistry

the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.

• Formal Debate

• Refute

• Sophistry

• Rhetoric

Debatable resolutions or assertions

• Propositions

• Debates

• Forensics

• Arguments

To counter an argument with evidence and logic

• Propose

• Censure

• Debate

• Refute