Walton, Douglas N. creator text bibliography enk Cambridge [UK] New York Cambridge University Press 2006 monographic eng

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xvi, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. Douglas Walton. Includes bibliographical references and index. Reasoning BC177 .W3235 2006 160 0521823196 0521530202 (pbk.) 2005000190 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005000190.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2005000190-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005000190.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2005000190-d.html PUL 050106 20150804170009.0 13832555