Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation write by Douglas Walton. This book was released on 1992-11-03. Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a practical and accessible way of evaluating good and bad arguments used in everyday conversations by applying normative models of dialectical (interactive) argumentation, where two parties reason together in an orderly and cooperative way. Using case studies, the author analyzes correct and incorrect uses of argumentation on controversial issues that engage the reader's interest while illustrating points in a practical way. Walton gives clear explanations of the most common errors and tricky deceptions — traditionally called "fallacies" — that can trip up an unwary arguer.
Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation
Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation write by Douglas N. Walton. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a practical and accessible way of evaluating good and bad arguments used in everyday conversations by applying normative models of dialectical (interactive) argumentation, where two parties reason together in an orderly and cooperative way. Using case studies, the author analyzes correct and incorrect uses of argumentation on controversial issues that engage the reader's interest while illustrating points in a practical way. Walton gives clear explanations of the most common errors and tricky deceptions -- traditionally called "fallacies" -- that can trip up an unwary arguer.
Arguments from Ignorance
Arguments from Ignorance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arguments from Ignorance write by Douglas N. Walton. This book was released on 1996. Arguments from Ignorance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguments from Ignorance explores the situations in which the argument from ignorance (also known as the lack-of-knowledge inference, negative evidence, or default reasoning) functions as a respectable form of reasoning and those in which it is indeed fallacious. Douglas Walton draws on everyday conversations on all kinds of practical matters in which the argumentum ad ignorantiam is used quite appropriately to infer conclusions. He also discusses the inappropriate use of this kind of argument, referring to various major case studies, including the Salem witchcraft trials, the McCarthy hearings, and the Alger Hiss case. This book makes an original contribution in the areas of argumentation theory and informal logic, contending that, despite its traditional classification as a fallacy, the argument from ignorance is a genuine, very common, and legitimate type of argumentation with an identifiable structure. But the book is also interdisciplinary in scope, explaining many widely interesting and controversial subjects in artificial intelligence, medical education, philosophy of science, and philosophy of law in a clear way that makes it accessible to a broad range of readers.
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Companion to Philosophy write by Ted Honderich. This book was released on 2005-03-10. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oxford University Press presents a major new edition of the definitive philosophical reference work for readers at all levels. For ten years the original volume has served as a stimulating introduction for general readers and as an indispensable guide for students; its breadth and depth of coverage have ensured that it is also read with pleasure and interest by those working at a higher level in philosophy and related disciplines. A distinguished international assembly of 249 philosophers contributed almost 2,000 entries, and many of these have now been considerably revised and updated; to these are added over 300 brand-new pieces on a fascinating range of current topics. This new edition offers enlightening and enjoyable discussions of all aspects of philosophy, and of the lives and work of the great philosophers from antiquity to the present day.
Appeal to Pity
Appeal to Pity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Appeal to Pity write by Douglas Walton. This book was released on 2016-02-24. Appeal to Pity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Appeal to pity has frequently been exploited with amazing success as a deceptive tactic of argumentation, so much so that it has traditionally been treated as a fallacy. Using a case study method, the author examines examples of appeals to pity and compassion in real arguments in order to classify, analyze, and evaluate the types of arguments used in these appeals. Among the cases studied are the controversial use of "poster kids" in the Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy and the "baby incubators story" deployed by a public relations firm to influence the decision to send U.S. forces into Kuwait during the Gulf War. In addition to the analyses of these and other case studies, this book provides, for the first time, precise guidelines and useful criteria with which to identify, analyze, and evaluate instances of the ad misericordiam argument.
