Fundamentals of critical argumentation
By: Douglas Walton.
Series: Critical reasoning and argumentation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Reasoning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Arguments and dialogues; title: Dialogues; title: Arguments; title: Questions and statements; title: A more detailed looks at arguments in dialogues; title: Generalizations; title: Chaining of arguments; title: Criticizing by questioning or rebuttal; title: Criticizing and argument by asking a question; title: Disputes and dissents; title: Concepts useful for understanding arguments; title: Inconsistency; title: Three kinds of arguments; title: Syllogisms; title: Complex propositions; title: Some other common forms of deductive argument; title: Probability and inductive argument; title: Plausible argumentation; title: Arguments and explanations; title: Argumentation schemes; title: Appeal to expert opinion; title: Argument from popular opinion; title: Argument from analogy; title: Argument from correlation to cause; title: Argument from consequences and slippery slope; title: Argument from sign; title: Argument from commitment; title: Ad hominem arguments; title: Argument from verbal classification; title: Argument reconstruction; title: Single and linked arguments; title: Convergent arguments; title: Serial and divergent arguments; title: Distinguishing between linked and convergent arguments; title: Extended arguments; title: Enthymemes; title: Cleaning up a text of discourse; title: Dialogues; title: Persuasion dialogue; title: Commitment in dialogue; title: Other types of dialogue; title: Simple and complex questions; title: Loaded questions; title: Responding to tricky questions; title: Relevance of questions and replies; title: Detecting bias; title: Loaded terms; title: Point of view and burden of proof; title: Biased argumentation; title: Verbal disputes; title: Lexical, stipulative and persuasive definitions; title: Philosophical and scientific definitions; title: Normal and troublesome bias; title: Relevance; title: Probative relevance; title: Dialectical relevance; title: Relevance in meetings and debates; title: Relevance in legal argumentation; title: Fear appeal arguments; title: Threats as arguments; title: Appeal to pity; title: Shifts and relevance; title: Practical reasoning in a dialogical framework; title: Practical inferences; title: Necessary and sufficient conditions; title: Disjunctive reasoning; title: Taking consequences into account; title: The dilemma; title: The closed world assumption; title: Lack of knowledge inferences; title: Real world situations.