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Towards an experimental account of argumentation: the case of the slippery slope and the ad hominem arguments [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Argumentation is a crucial component of our lives. Although in the absence of rational debate our legal, political, and scientific systems would not be possible, there is still no integrated area of research on the psychology of argumentation ...
Marco eLillo-Unglaube +3 more
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Virtues, Evidence, and Ad Hominem Arguments
Informal Logic, 2015 Argumentation theorists are beginning to think of ad hominem arguments as generally legitimate. Virtue argumentation theorists argue that a character trait approach to argument appraisal can explain why ad hominems would are legitimate, when they are ...
Patrick Bondy
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Ad Hominem Arguments, Rhetoric, and Science Communication [PDF]
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018 In this paper, I contend that evidence-focused strategies of science communication may be complemented by possibly more effective rhetorical arguments in current public debates on vaccines.
Martini Carlo
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Annotating Argument Schemes. [PDF]
Argumentation, 2021 Argument schemes are abstractions substantiating the inferential connection between premise(s) and conclusion in argumentative communication. Identifying such conventional patterns of reasoning is essential to the interpretation and evaluation of ...
Visser J +4 more
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Rhetorical Appeals and Tactics in New York Times Comments About Vaccines: Qualitative Analysis
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020 BackgroundImproving persuasion in response to vaccine skepticism is a long-standing problem. Elective nonvaccination emerging from skepticism about vaccine safety and efficacy jeopardizes herd immunity, exposing those who are most vulnerable to the risk ...
Gallagher, John, Lawrence, Heidi Y
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Valid Ad Hominem Arguments in Philosophy: Johnstone's Metaphilosophical Informal Logic
Informal Logic, 2001 This is a critical examination of Johnstone's thesis that all valid philosophical arguments are ad hominem. I clarify his notions of valid, philosophical, and ad hominem. I illustrate the thesis with his refutation ofthe claim that only ordinary language
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
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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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Arrogance and deep disagreement [PDF]
, 2020 I intend to bring recent work applying virtue theory to the study of argument to bear on a much older problem, that of disagreements that resist rational resolution, sometimes termed "deep disagreements".
Aberdein, Andrew
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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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It's All Very Well for You to Talk! Situationally Disqualifying Ad Hominem Attacks
Informal 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
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