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A pragmatic theory of fallacy /

"Although many individual fallacies have now been studied and analyzed in the growing literature on argumentation, the concept of fallacy itself has lacked a sufficiently clear meaning to make it as useful as it could be for evaluating arguments." "Walton looks at how an argument is u...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walton, Douglas N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1995.
Series:Studies in rhetoric and communication.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The Concept of Fallacy
  • Ch. 2. Informal Fallacies
  • Ch. 3. Formal Fallacies
  • Ch. 4. Types of Dialogue
  • Ch. 5. Argumentation Schemes
  • Ch. 6. Dialectical Relevance of Argumentation
  • Ch. 7. A New Approach to Fallacies
  • Ch. 8. A Theory of Fallacy
  • Ch. 9.tPutting the Theory to Work.