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Informal Fallacies: Towards a Theory of Argument of Criticisms

By Douglas Walton

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
1987
ISBN
9027250057, 9789027250056
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33325220 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series 4
Pages
348\345
Time added
2015-01-19 03:26:16

Description

The basic question of this monograph is: how should we go about judging arguments to be reasonable or unreasonable? Our concern will be with argument in a broad sense, with realistic arguments in natural language. The basic object will be to engage in a normative study of determining what factors, standards, or procedures should be adopted or appealed to in evaluating an argument as “good,” “not-so-good,” “open to criticism,” “fallacious,” and so forth. Hence our primary concern will be with the problems of how to criticize an argument, and when a criticism is reasonably justified.

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