Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation /
Walton, Douglas N.
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation / Douglas Walton. - Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2006. - xvi, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Critical reasoning and argumentation .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Arguments and dialogues -- Dialogues -- Arguments -- Questions and statements -- 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.
0521823196 0521530202 (pbk.) 0521823196 (hbk.) 9780521823197 (hbk.) 9780521530200 (pbk.)
2005000190
013240076 Uk
Reasoning.
BC177 / .W3235 2006
160 / WAL
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation / Douglas Walton. - Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2006. - xvi, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Critical reasoning and argumentation .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Arguments and dialogues -- Dialogues -- Arguments -- Questions and statements -- 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.
0521823196 0521530202 (pbk.) 0521823196 (hbk.) 9780521823197 (hbk.) 9780521530200 (pbk.)
2005000190
013240076 Uk
Reasoning.
BC177 / .W3235 2006
160 / WAL