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Peggy Mccracken. The Curse Of Eve, The Wound Of The Hero: Blood, Gender, And Medieval Literature. The Middle Ages Series. University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2003., Shona Harrison Dec 2009

Peggy Mccracken. The Curse Of Eve, The Wound Of The Hero: Blood, Gender, And Medieval Literature. The Middle Ages Series. University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2003., Shona Harrison

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Reconstructive Charity, Soundness And The Rsa-Criteria Of Good Argumentation, Frank Zenker Jun 2009

Reconstructive Charity, Soundness And The Rsa-Criteria Of Good Argumentation, Frank Zenker

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This paper discusses an example of social policy argumentation from an opinion of the 2007 majority among the German National Ethics Council (NEC 2007). It is employed to problematize argument reconstruction with respect to the Informal Logic quality criteria relevance, sufficiency, acceptability (RSA) (Johnson & Blair 2006, 11977). The main thesis is conditional and rather weak: If the RSA criteria are sub-stitutes for the notion of soundness, then—next to premise-truth and validity—they also substitute recon-structive charity