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Logic, Epistemology and Argument Appraisal

Argumentation Library, 2001
There is a more or less traditional approach to the assessment of arguments that attends to whether an argument is sound, defining a sound argument as one whose premisses are true and imply its conclusion ...
Robert C Pinto
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Rawls's Basic Structure Argument: A Critical Appraisal

Ethical Economy, 2001
In Chapter VI, I argued that there is no a priori contradiction between Cohen's principle of comprehensive justification applied to egalitarian principles and Nagel's conception of a moral division of labour. Using the conceptual legislation developed in Chapter VI, I now want to develop the following set of ideas.
Frank Vandenbroucke
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Despair's demand: An appraisal of Kierkegaard's argument for God

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1992
Anyone who has even attempted to tackle the writings of S0ren Kierkegaard knows that they make up a diverse and complex authorship. The standard fare served up as "Kierkegaard" in philosophy textbooks or in historical surveys is at best one-sided and more often thoroughly distorted. In one sense, Kierkegaard would have liked that. His work does not fit
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A Theory of Argument Appraisal

1988
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Reasoning and Appraisal in Multimodal Argumentation

Chinese Semiotic Studies, 2020
Abstract The development of new media enlarges the repertoire of semantic resources in creating a discourse. Apart from language, visual and sound symbols can all become semantic sources, and a synergy of different modality and symbols can be used to complete argumentative reasoning and evaluation.
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Balancing Interpretative Arguments in International Law—A Linguistic Appraisal

Nordic Journal of International Law, 2020
Abstract The interaction between arguments developed under the different means of interpretation of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties is often described in language evoking balancing. The present paper offers a linguistic perspective on this phenomenon. First, it aims to clarify in what situations balancing is actually taking place during an
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The ancestry of the Mende: An appraisal of Migeod's argument

The Journal of African History, 1974
The widely accepted argument of Migeod, that the existence of polar morphological types among Mende men is evidence of an ancestral mixture of Mandingo and forest-dwellers, is examined and rejected. Despite the great probability that the ancestry of the Mende is indeed heterogeneous, neither Migeod's argument nor his data support his conclusions.
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Appraisals Analysis on the Argumentation Structure of Indonesian Undergraduate Students’ Research Articles

Issues in Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching, 2022
This research aims to analyze the argument structure of undergraduate students’ research articles that focus on the introduction section. The data collection was conducted by analyzing the proceedings in the "Background" section written by undergraduate students at university in Indonesia. The data were then analyzed by using a corpus.
Alfa Lisa Muslimah Febriyanti Reddy, Intan Pradita   +1 more
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Fallacies and Argument Appraisal

2007
Fallacies and Argument Appraisal presents an introduction to the nature, identification, and causes of fallacious reasoning, along with key questions for evaluation. Drawing from the latest work on fallacies as well as some of the standard ideas that have remained relevant since Aristotle, Christopher Tindale investigates central cases of major ...
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Are Hate Speech Laws Useless? An Appraisal of Eric Heinze’s Arguments

Res Publica, 2021
Most Western democracies and international institutions have currently adopted a range of policies aimed at regulating hate speech. However, the kinds of target groups that hate speech regulations seek to protect have not been clearly defined yet. In a series of publications, Eric Heinze has challenged the coherence of such regulations. His core thesis
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