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It's All Very Well for You to Talk! Situationally Disqualifying Ad Hominem Attacks

open access: yesInformal Logic, 1993
The situationally disqualifying ad hominem attack is an argumentative move in critical dialogue whereby one participant points out certain features in his adversary's personal situation that are claimed to make it inappropriate for this adversary to ...
Erik C. W. Krabbe, Douglas Walton
doaj   +1 more source

Naturalizing Logic: a case study of the ad hominem and implicit bias [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The fallacies, as traditionally conceived, are wrong ways of reasoning that nevertheless appear attractive to us. Recently, however, Woods (2013) has argued that they don’t merit such a title, and that what we take to be fallacies are instead largely ...
Ransom, Madeleine
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The Passions of Christ in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas: An Integrative Account [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In recent scholarship, moral theologians and readers of Thomas Aquinas have shown increasing sensitivity to the role of the passions in the moral life.
Clem, Stewart
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Everybody hurts: The Reviewer‐Imposed Pain (RIP) matrix

open access: yesMedical Education, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 73-78, January 2026.
Abstract The peer review process supports authors by providing feedback on manuscripts from external, expert readers. However, not all reviews are supportive. Some reviews are just painful. But just how painful are they? In this study, we set out to validate a matrix describing the levels of pain authors experience in response to the sting of peer ...
Lara Varpio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From 'scientific revolution' to 'unscientific revolution': an analysis of approaches to the history of generative linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper is devoted to the challenge that generative linguistics poses for linguistic historiography. As a first step, it presents a systematic overview of 19 approaches to the history of generative linguistics.
Aarsleff   +98 more
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Misogyny, racism, and threats to our families: a qualitative study of harassment of female politicians

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 979-1007, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Politicians from around the world are increasingly subject to harassment, with women disproportionately targeted. Recent changes in the sociopolitical landscape have influenced the nature and intensity of this harassment, with New Zealand being no exception. This qualitative study explores the experiences and impacts of harassment among female
Rhiannon Watson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Whately on Arguments Involving Authority

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2008
Richard Whately’s views of arguments involving authority are very different in his Elements of Rhetoric and his Elements of Logic. This essay begins by documenting these differences and wondering why they are.
Hans V. Hansen
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
wiley   +1 more source

Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 46, Issue 6, Page 1858-1886, December 2025.
Abstract Meta‐analyses have demonstrated how inoculation interventions increase the detection of misinformation, but their scalability has remained elusive. To address this, Study 1 (pre‐registered; N = 1,583) tested the efficacy of three short inoculation videos (prebunks) against three common manipulation tactics used in misinformation: (1 ...
Mikey Biddlestone   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Argotario: Computational Argumentation Meets Serious Games

open access: yes, 2017
An important skill in critical thinking and argumentation is the ability to spot and recognize fallacies. Fallacious arguments, omnipresent in argumentative discourse, can be deceptive, manipulative, or simply leading to `wrong moves' in a discussion ...
Gurevych, Iryna   +5 more
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