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Relevance in argumentation /

In Relevance in Argumentation, author Douglas Walton presents a new method for critically evaluating arguments for relevance. This method enables a critic to judge whether a move can be said to be relevant or irrelevant, and is based on case studies of argumentation in which a criticism has been mad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walton, Douglas N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Examples of Irrelevant Arguments
  • The Exclusionary Function
  • Irrelevance in a Political Debate
  • Murder is a Horrible Crime
  • Problems in Judging an Argument Irrelevant
  • Material Relevance
  • Other Fallacies of Irrelevance
  • Irrelevance in Legal Argumentation
  • The Straw Man Fallacy
  • Relevance as Relative to a Discussion
  • The Dialectical Nature of Relevance
  • Historical Background
  • Aristotle on Misconception of Refutation
  • The Ancient Concept of Stasis
  • Irrelevance and Digression
  • William of Sherwood on Ignoratio Elenchi
  • The Obligation Game
  • The Port Royal Logic
  • Isaac Watts's Logick
  • Whately's Elements of Logic
  • McCosh on Shifting Ground
  • The Perspective of Schiller and Sidgwick
  • Textbook Treatments of Irrelevance
  • Minimalistic Aristotelian Accounts
  • Problematic Cases
  • The Dual Approach
  • Damer: Further Subtleties of Relevance
  • Johnson and Blair: Irrelevant Reason and Red Herring
  • Govier: Probative Relevance
  • Hurley: Another Variant of the Dual Approach
  • Straw Man and Relevance
  • The Current Predicament
  • The Problem of Analyzing Relevance
  • The Paradoxes
  • Relevance and Conditionals
  • Relevance Logic and Formal Relevance Systems
  • Appeals to Emotion
  • Apparent Relevance
  • Pragmatic Conversational Failures
  • Conversational Implicature
  • Problems with the Gricean Approach
  • Argument Diagramming
  • Components of a Theory of Relevance
  • The Dialectical Nature of Relevance
  • Relevance in a Persuasion Dialogue
  • Relevance in Information-Seeking Dialogue.