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The Authority of the Fallacies Approach to Argument Evaluation
Informal Logic, 2010 Popular textbook treatments of the fallacies approach to argument evaluation employ the Adversary Method identified by Janice Moulton (1983) that takes the goal of argumentation to be the defeat of other arguments and that narrows the terms of discourse ...
Catherine Hundleby
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Informal Logic, 2000 This paper argues for the importance of the distinction between internal and external negation over expressions for belief. The common fallacy is to confuse statement like (1) and (2): (1) John believes that the school is not closed on Tuesday; (2) John ...
Jonathan E. Adler, J. Anthony Blair
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Reasoning under uncertainty: the role of two informal fallacies in an emerging scientific inquiry [PDF]
, 2002 It is now commonplace in fallacy inquiry for many of the traditional informal fallacies to be viewed as reasonable or non-fallacious modes of argument.
Cummings, L
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Un lieu pour les figures dans la théorie de l’argumentation
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2009 This paper deals with the treatment of figures of speech in Perelman’s and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s Treatise on Argumentation (TA), and, more broadly, with the place of figures in argumentation theory.
Christian Plantin
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Contractualism and the Conditional Fallacy [PDF]
, 2014 Most contractualist ethical theories have a subjunctivist structure. This means that they attempt to make sense of right and wrong in terms of a set of principles which would be accepted in some idealized, non-actual circumstances. This makes these views
Suikkanen, Jussi
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Studia Psychologica, 2021 The theory of action versus state orientation suggests that state-oriented people are more susceptible to sunk cost fallacy than action-oriented people because they ruminate about past costs and are reluctant to change their course of actions.
Miroslava Galasová, Matúš Grežo
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Lightening up on the Ad Hominem
Informal Logic, 2008 In all three of its manifestations, —abusive, circumstantial and tu quoque—the role of the ad hominem is to raise a doubt about the opposite party’s casemaking bona-fides.Provided that it is both presumptive and provisional, drawing such a conclusion is ...
John Woods
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Journal of Neurology, 2005 Contains fulltext : 48478.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Voermans, N.C. +4 more
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Denying the Antecedent as a Legitimate Argumentative Strategy: A Dialectical Model
Informal Logic, 2004 The standard account of denying the antecedent (DA) is that it is a deductively invalid form of argument, and that, in a conditional argument, to argue from the falsity of the antecedent to the falsity of the consequent is always fallacious.
David Godden
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Journal of Medical Ethics, 2007 A response is given to the claim by Claxton and Culyer, who stated that the policies of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) do not evaluate patients rather than treatments. The argument is made that the use of values such as quality of life and life-years is ethically dubious when used to choose which patients ought to ...
Quigley, Muireann, Harris, John
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