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AD HOMINEM ARGUMENTS AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN: REPLY TO KOPERSKI
Zygon, 2012 Jeffrey Koperski claims in Zygon (2008) that critics of Intelligent Design engage in fallacious ad hominem attacks on ID proponents and that this is a “bad way” to engage them.
Christopher A Pynes
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Are Insinuated Ad Hominem Arguments Rhetorically Effective? Yes, but Conditions Apply
ArgumentationAbstract Personal attacks, which might convey damaging accusations, can take either an explicit or an implicit form. When they are communicated implicitly, they are referred to as insinuations .
Daniel de Oliveira Fernandes +1 more
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Thou Shalt Not Squander Life – Comparing Five Approaches to Argument Strength
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2023 Different approaches analyze the strength of a natural language argument in different ways. This paper contrasts the dialectical, structural, probabilistic (or Bayesian), computational, and empirical approaches by exemplarily applying them to a single ...
Zenker Frank +4 more
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Non-inferential aspects of Ad Hominem and Ad Baculum [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of the paper is to explore the interrelation between persuasion tactics and properties of speech acts. We investigate two types of arguments ad: ad hominem and ad baculum.
Budzynska, Katarzyna, Witek, Maciej
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Res Rhetorica, 2022 Populism can be treated as an ideological attribute of political parties, but in this study, it is operationalized as a feature of argumentation that allows populists to claim to be the only ones to represent the interests of the nation.
Robert Radziej +1 more
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Moral Error Theory and the Problem of Evil [PDF]
, 2009 Moral error theory claims that no moral sentence is (nonvacuously) true. Atheism claims that the existence of evil in the world is incompatible with, or makes improbable, the existence of God. Is moral error theory compatible with atheism?
Daly, Chris
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Informal Logic, 2010 In this paper, I argue that ad hominem arguments are not always fallacious. More explicitly, in certain cases of practical reasoning, the circumstances of a person are relevant to whether or not the conclusion should be accepted.
Moti Mizrahi
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Ad hominem arguments and virtue epistemology: How to attack the person without committing a logical or moral failure in the attempt [PDF]
, 2022 The aim of this paper is to offer an explanation of the legitimacy of certain ad hominem arguments by appealing to virtue epistemology. The main thesis is that there are ad hominem arguments that are acceptable if they are conceived as inductive ...
Rivera-Novoa, Angel
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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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Reasoning in a Multicultural Society [PDF]
, 2011 Multicultural society as a way of being-with-others needs a certain form of public reasoning. Unfortunately, the current yet dominant form of public reasoning is infiltrated by biases from occidental culture.
Adian, D. G. (Donny)
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