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, 2010 Christopher Johnson argued in ‘Reconsidering the Ad Hominem’ that, in certain exceptional cases, appealing to ad hominem considerations is logically justifiable.
Daniel Putman
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L’argomento “ad hominem”: riflessioni sulle funzioni della violenza verbale
Altre Modernità, 2010 The aim of this paper is to argue that the attack against someone else, as a kind of argument ad hominem, has a civic utility when it gives issue to polemic antagonism.
Ruth Amossy +1 more
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Revision and Immortality in Philosophical Argumentation: Continuing Thoughts on the Rhetorical Wedge
Informal Logic, 2001 This essay explores Johnstone's idea that "rhetoric is a wedge." In particular, it explores the place of this idea in Johnstone's philosophy of argument, the need to confront this idea with argument, and ways of confronting it with ad rem and ad hominem ...
Mari Lee Mifsud
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Satire, polémique, hystérie : Nicolas Bourbon (Nugae, 1533) et ses ennemis
Savoirs en Lien, 2022 L’humaniste Nicolas Bourbon est un membre important du réseau évangélique français, dont l’œuvre est caractérisée par une forte dimension polémique : prises à partie d’une violence extrême des « jaloux » qui envient ses succès mais, surtout ...
Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine
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Enduring After God: An Anatheistic Reframing of Augustine on Suicide
The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper proposes a retrieval of Augustine's argument on suicide in De Civitate Dei I.17–27, rearticulating its ethical core for a post‐theistic age through the hermeneutic lens of Richard Kearney's anatheism. Confronting the dual reality of persistent suicide and declining religiosity, I argue that Augustine's pastoral case against ending ...
Kornelius Lumbanbatu
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Dreams, Scepticism and Idealism
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On one narrative, Berkeleyan idealism arises from Cartesian theorising: Descartes's discussion of dreaming in the Meditations leads first to scepticism, and through scepticism, to Berkeley's rejection of realism. In this paper, I consider how this move from dreams to idealism is supposed to work.
Melissa Frankel
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Source Related Argumentation Found in Science Websites
Informal Logic, 2020 In this paper, we consider the way that web documents seeking to persuade readers of certain science claims provide information about the sources of the arguments.
Ralph Barnes +2 more
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Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
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Computational Ad Hominem Detection
, 2019 Fallacies like the personal attack—also known as the ad hominem attack—are introduced in debates as an easy win, even though they provide no rhetorical contribution.
Pieter Delobelle +9 more
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Argumentation Ab Homine in Philosophy
Informal Logic, 2021 Argumentation that uses the beliefs of one’s opponents to refute them is well known (ad hominem in the classical sense). This paper proposes that there is a hitherto unnoticed counterpart to it, to be called ab homine, in which speakers/writers argue ...
Fernando Leal
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