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Attacking Character: Ad Hominem Argument and Virtue Epistemology
Informal Logic, 2010 The recent literature on ad hominem argument contends that the speaker’s character is sometimes relevant to evaluating what she says. This effort to redeem ad hominems requires an analysis of character that explains why and how character is relevant.
Heather Battaly
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L’argomento “ad hominem”: riflessioni sulle funzioni della violenza verbale [PDF]
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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An Experimental Study on the Evaluation of Metaphorical Ad Hominem Arguments
Informal Logic: Metaphors are emotionally engaging, influenc-ing the evaluation of arguments. The paper empirically in-vestigates whether metaphors in the premise can lead the evaluator to judge an ad hominem argument as sound when the arguer instead committed a ...
Francesca Ervas, Oriana Mosca
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Argumentum Ad Hominem Logic Fallacy [PDF]
, 2021 anemonAd hominem arguments are very common in political debates, legal disputes, and everyday speech. The reason why this is treated as a logical error is that the argument put forward by a person is clearly often irrelevant to the character ...
Gülümser DURHAN, Durhan, Gülümser
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Virtue and argument: Taking character into account [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper we consider the prospects for an account of good argument that takes the character of the arguer into consideration. We conclude that although there is much to be gained by identifying the virtues of the good arguer and by considering the ...
Justine Kingsbury +3 more
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The Greek Roots of the Ad Hominem-Argument [PDF]
, 2002 In this paper, I discuss the current thesis on the modern origin of the ad hominem-argument, by analysing the Aristotelian conception of it. In view of the recent accounts which consider it a relative argument, i.e., acceptable only by the particular ...
Chichi, Graciela Marta
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The Greek Roots of the Ad Hominem-Argument [PDF]
, 2022 In this paper, I discuss the current thesis on the modern origin of the ad hominem-argument, by analysing the Aristotelian conception of it. In view of the recent accounts which consider it a relative argument, i.e., acceptable only by the particular ...
Chichi, Graciela Marta
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E-Spania, 2023 En 1628, la parution de la Historia apologética y descripción del reyno de Navarra d’un certain García Góngora y Torreblanca suscite la fureur des institutions aragonaises et au premier chef de son chroniqueur officiel garant de la mémoire du royaume ...
Héloïse Hermant
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Seeing through Plato’s Looking Glass. Mythos and Mimesis from Republic to Poetics
Aisthesis, 2017 This paper revisits Plato’s and Aristotle’s views on mimesis with a special emphasis on mythos as an integral part of it. I argue that the Republic’s notorious “mirror argument” is in fact ad hominem: first, Plato likely has in mind Agathon’s mirror in ...
Andrea Capra
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Johnstone's View of Rhetorical and Dialectical Argument
Informal Logic, 2001 In the writings of Henry W. Johnstone, Jr. there can be found an evolving and gradually more sophisticated discussion of the relationship between rhetorical and dialectical argument. Johnstone's view on these matters was highly original, and at odds with
Douglas Walton
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