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343

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2005, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Arguments and dialogues
Dialogues
Arguments
Questions and statements
A more detailed looks at arguments in dialogues
Generalizations
Chaining of arguments
Criticizing by questioning or rebuttal
Criticizing and argument by asking a question
Disputes and dissents
Concepts useful for understanding arguments
Inconsistency
Three kinds of arguments
Syllogisms
Complex propositions
Some other common forms of deductive argument
Probability and inductive argument
Plausible argumentation
Arguments and explanations
Argumentation schemes
Appeal to expert opinion
Argument from popular opinion
Argument from analogy
Argument from correlation to cause
Argument from consequences and slippery slope
Argument from sign
Argument from commitment
Ad hominem arguments
Argument from verbal classification
Argument reconstruction
Single and linked arguments
Convergent arguments
Serial and divergent arguments
Distinguishing between linked and convergent arguments
Extended arguments
Enthymemes
Cleaning up a text of discourse
Dialogues
Persuasion dialogue
Commitment in dialogue
Other types of dialogue
Simple and complex questions
Loaded questions
Responding to tricky questions
Relevance of questions and replies
Detecting bias
Loaded terms
Point of view and burden of proof
Biased argumentation
Verbal disputes
Lexical, stipulative and persuasive definitions
Philosophical and scientific definitions
Normal and troublesome bias
Relevance
Probative relevance
Dialectical relevance
Relevance in meetings and debates
Relevance in legal argumentation
Fear appeal arguments
Threats as arguments
Appeal to pity
Shifts and relevance
Practical reasoning in a dialogical framework
Practical inferences
Necessary and sufficient conditions
Disjunctive reasoning
Taking consequences into account
The dilemma
The closed world assumption
Lack of knowledge inferences
Real world situations.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, UK, New York
Series
Critical reasoning and argumentation

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
160
Library of Congress
BC177 .W3235 2005, BC177.W3235 2005, BC177 .W3235 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
343

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Open Library
OL3391688M
Internet Archive
fundamentalscrit00walt_960
ISBN 10
0521823196, 0521530202
LCCN
2005000190
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4439943
2944704

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