Informal Logic A Handbook for Critical Argument

Name: Informal Logic A Handbook for Critical Argument
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ISBN: 9780521379250

ISBN-10: 0521379253

ISBN-13: 9780521379250

Edition: 1989

Authors: Douglas N. Walton

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This is an introductory guide to the basic principles of constructing good arguments and criticizing bad ones. It is nontechnical in its approach, and is based on 150 key examples, each discussed and evaluated in clear, illustrative detail. The author explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He shows how correct uses of argument are based on sound argument strategies for reasoned persuasion and critical questions for responding. Among the many subjects covered are: techniques of posing, replying to, and criticizing questions, forms of valid argument, relevance, appeals to emotion, personal attack, uses and abuses of expert opinion, problems in deploying…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/28/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Argument as reasoned dialogue



Questions and answers in dialogue



Criticisms of irrelevance



Appeals to emotion



Valid arguments



Personal attack in argumentation



Appeals to authority



Inductive errors, bias, and fallacies



Natural language argumentation


Bibliography


Index