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Everybody Knows that There Is Something Odd About Ad Populum Arguments
In the wake of research on linguistic resources of argumentation (Doury, 2018; van Eemeren Houtlosser, & Snoeck Henkemans, 2007), this chapter...
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Locke and “ad”
In IV, xvii, 19–22 of his Essay , Locke employs Latin labels for four kinds of argument, of which one ( ad hominem ) was already in circulation and one (
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Arguments from Popularity: Their Merits and Defects in Argumentative Discussion
How to understand and assess arguments in which the popularity of an opinion is put forward as a reason to accept that opinion? There exist widely...
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Epidemiology of Fallacies
In this paper I apply the epidemiological model of the spread of beliefs and how they become cultural representations to the field of fallacies. The...
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The Pragma-Dialectical Approach to the Fallacies Revisited
This article explains the design and development of the pragma-dialectical approach to fallacies. In this approach fallacies are viewed as violations...
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Textbook Treatments of Fallacies
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1970 ) castigated what he called the “standard treatment” of fallacies in introductory textbooks of his day as debased,... -
The Fallacy of Misplaced Presumption
One takes one’s word that p when a source vouches for p and one accepts the word of that source. If the source is reliable in this case, p is...
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Sanderson, Robert
In 1615, Robert Sanderson, then an Oxford college tutor of logic, was the author of a very popular textbook representative of the contemporary...
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Authority Argument Schemes, Types, and Critical Questions
Authority arguments generate support for claims by appealing to an agent’s authority status, rather than to reasons independent of it. With few...
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Moral Bubbles: Legitimizing and Dissimulating Violence Distributing Violence through Fallacies
Among Languageand violence theViolenceand language philosophers, Derrida Derrida, J.is the only one to clearly analyze and explore the link between...
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Chrysostomus Javelli’s Commentaries on Plato’s Moral Philosophy
Even though he is often labelled as a Thomist for his role in the Pomponazzi affair, Chrystostomus Javelli is, above all, the author of several,...
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Neither Plato Nor Aristotle: Javelli’s Project of Christian Philosophy
This chapter discusses Javelli’s concept of Christian philosophy (philosophia Christiana), a project that has been completely neglected by modern...
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Extra ecclesiam nulla salus: Salvation Within the Ecclesiastical Sphere
For Biondo, salvation took place both in the interior and exterior dimensions. This chapter examines how he tried to reconcile the demands of both...
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Introduction: From Argumentation to Language—And Vice Versa
In this introduction, we present an overview of the chapters, situating them with respect to each other and to more general developments in...
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Carroll’s Regress Times Three
I show that in our theoretical representations of argument, vicious infinite regresses of self-reference may arise with respect to each of the three...
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Mediate Inference (Syllogism)
In this chapter, we will discuss mediate inference (i.e. syllogism) in detail with suitable examples. We will analyse the moods and figures of...
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Knowing What One Likes: Epistemicist Solution to Faultless Disagreement
In this paper, I argue that the phenomenon of faultless disagreement for predicates of taste may be fruitfully explained by appealing to the...
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Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (1998). Übers.: Stolz auf unser Land (1999)
Die deutsche Übersetzung des Titels ist irreführend, aber lehrreich, denn die Hauptthese steckt im englischen Originaltitel von 1998: Achieving our...
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Biases in bioethics: a narrative review
Given that biases can distort bioethics work, it has received surprisingly little and fragmented attention compared to in other fields of research....
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Everybody else is thinking it, so why can’t we?
Does the fact that other people believe something give me a reason to believe it, too? Yes, and this epistemic fact is explained by the principle of...