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Acts of Arguing
A Rhetorical Model of Argument
Häftad, 1999
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Approaches recent innovations in argumentation theory from a primarily rhetorical perspective.The revival of argumentation theory in the past few decades has focused on its logical and dialectical dimensions, with less attention paid to rhetorical features. This book explores and then redresses …
On the Logic of Ordinary Conditionals
Häftad, 1990
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On the Logic of Ordinary Conditionals offers a formal treatment of the logic of a type of conditional found in natural speech which differs substantially from the material conditional of propositional logic and from the conditionals afforded by theories of possible worlds. Conventional and …
Essentialism
A Wittgensteinian Critique
Inbunden, 1991
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Argues that many philosophical commitments to hidden "essences" are based on misunderstandings of language, and that Wittgenstein's view of meaning as use dissolves these essentialist assumptions across logic, epistemology, and metaphysics.What if much of contemporary philosophy rests on a mistake …
Rationalized Epistemology
Taking Solipsism Seriously
Häftad, 1991
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This book examines skeptical problems originally raised by Descartes and Hume and currently discussed in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. It answers the basic skeptical questions concerning the existence of what is now unperceived, the reality of what is …
Commitment in Dialogue
Basic Concepts of Interpersonal Reasoning
Av Douglas Walton, Erik C. W. Krabbe
Häftad, 1995
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Develops a logical analysis of dialogue in which two or more parties attempt to advance their own interests. It includes a classification of the major types of dialogues and a discussion of several important informal fallacies.This book develops a logical analysis of dialogue in which two or more …
Reconceiving Experience
A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes
Häftad, 1996
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Presents a new framework for understanding language, thought, and experience, and for carrying out research.Kearns investigates representation and intentional activity to determine how experience contributes to propositional thought and belief, and how experience is based on neural states and …
Appeal to Pity
Argumentum ad Misericordiam
Häftad, 1997
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A useful contribution to theories of argumentation and public address criticism, this book uses a pragmatic approach to understanding conversation as a way of elucidating the use of appeals to pity and sympathy.Appeal to pity has frequently been exploited with amazing success as a deceptive tactic …
One-Sided Arguments
A Dialectical Analysis of Bias
Inbunden, 1999
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A practical manual for evaluating bias that will be useful to anyone who has to deal with arguments, whether in academic reading or writing, or in everyday conversation.We often feel that an argument should be doubted or held as suspicious because it has a bias. But bias isn't always wrong. It is a …
One-Sided Arguments
A Dialectical Analysis of Bias
Häftad, 1999
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A practical manual for evaluating bias that will be useful to anyone who has to deal with arguments, whether in academic reading or writing, or in everyday conversation.We often feel that an argument should be doubted or held as suspicious because it has a bias. But bias isn't always wrong. It is a …
Argument of the Tractatus
Its Relevance to Contemporary Theories of Logic, Language, Mind, and Philosophical Truth
Häftad, 1986
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Presents a single unified interpretation of the Tractatus.The Argument of the "Tractatus" presents a single unified interpretation of the Tractatus based on Wittgenstein's own view that the philosophy of logic is the real foundation of his philosophical system. It demonstrates that on this …
Convention, Translation, and Understanding
Philosophical Problems in the Comparative Study of Culture
Häftad, 1988
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This book surveys several theoretical controversies in anthropology that revolve around reconciling the objective description of culture with the influence of inquirer interests and conceptions. It relates them to discussions by followers of W.V. Quine who see the problems of anthropological …
