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Author : Douglas N. Walton
Release : 1995
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Synopsis A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy by : Douglas N. Walton
Download or read book A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy written by Douglas N. Walton. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Such a contextual framework is shown to be crucial in determining whether an argument has been used correctly.
Author : Ralph H. Johnson
Release : 2012-11-12
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Manifest Rationality by : Ralph H. Johnson
Download or read book Manifest Rationality written by Ralph H. Johnson. This book was released on 2012-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book works through some of the theoretical issues that have been accumulating in informal logic over the past 20 years. At the same time, it defines a core position in the theory of argument in which those issues can be further explored. The underlying concern that motivates this work is the health of practice of argumentation as an important cultural artifact. A further concern is for logic as a discipline. Argumentative and dialectical in nature, this book presupposes some awareness of the theory of argument in recent history, and some familiarity with the positions that have been advanced. It will be of interest to academics, researchers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the disciplines of logic, rhetoric, linguistics, speech communication, English composition, and psychology.
Author : Douglas N. Walton
Release : 1987
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Informal Fallacies by : Douglas N. Walton
Download or read book Informal Fallacies written by Douglas N. Walton. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Douglas N. Walton
Release : 1996
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Argument Structure by : Douglas N. Walton
Download or read book Argument Structure written by Douglas N. Walton. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a systematic survey, clarification, and assessment of the different tests currently used to carry out tasks involved in argument identification, and presents new methods for determining missing premises, determining whether an argument is linked or convergent, and deciding whether a given test of discourse contains an argument or not. For courses in informal logic, critical thinking, argumentation, and logical reasoning. Also of interest to those in speech communication, rhetoric, discourse analysis, and education. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : John Woods
Release : 2007-01-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Fallacies by : John Woods
Download or read book Fallacies written by John Woods. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past forty years there has been a revolution in logic. There is a widening consensus that mathematical logic has not been a satisfactory theory of argumentation, where argumentation is taken as a means of rational belief-revision and conflict resolution. It is also widely held that the traditional informal fallacies are inadequately analyzed in standard accounts found in the logical writings of the period 1950-1970. Here in nineteen chapters are the classical papers of Woods and Walton published in the decade 1972-1982, and constituting the so-called Woods-Walton Approach to fallacy theory. Originally published as a collection in 1989, the book is now re-issued with a new Forward by Dale Jacquette. Woods and Walton are recognized for their seminal role in reviving the fallacies project in logic and giving to the fallacies research programme much of its evolving character and emphasis. It is one of their principal contentions that the fallacies respond best to theoretical pluralism and that different analytical tools are needed for different fallacies. Again conveniently available in a single volume, these papers are indispensable reading for a new generation of researchers in informal logic, argumentation theory, critical thinking, computer science, linguistics and cognitive psychology. John Woods is also author of The Death of Argument: Fallacies in Agent-Based Reasoning 2005. Douglas Walton is author of A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy 1995.
