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Commentary On Mckeon On Argument, Inference, And Persuasion, Daniel H. Cohen
Commentary On Mckeon On Argument, Inference, And Persuasion, Daniel H. Cohen
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Persuading Annoying Turtles: Blocking Conspiracies From Taking Our Rationality, Sheldon Wein
Persuading Annoying Turtles: Blocking Conspiracies From Taking Our Rationality, Sheldon Wein
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Recent work on Lewis Carroll’s “What the Tortoise Said to Achilles” sheds light not just on cases where one fails to be persuaded when one should be but also on cases where people are persuaded when they should not be. The recognition of impossibility that Carroll’s paper illuminates can help to show what goes wrong with some of those addicted to conspiracy theories.
Argument, Inference, And Persuasion, Matthew W. Mckeon
Argument, Inference, And Persuasion, Matthew W. Mckeon
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I move beyond Pinto’s (2001) discussion of arguments as invitations to inference by highlighting how arguments can guide the performance of inferences that they do not express. This motivates a distinction between two types of persuasive force arguments can have in terms of two different connections between arguments and inferences. I use this distinction to explain how an epistemically bad argument can rationally persuade addressees of its conclusion.
Multimodal Arguments In The Mainstream Press: Illustrating Portrayals Of Migration, Dimitris Serafis, Sara Greco, Chiara Pollaroli, Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria
Multimodal Arguments In The Mainstream Press: Illustrating Portrayals Of Migration, Dimitris Serafis, Sara Greco, Chiara Pollaroli, Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria
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This paper sketches a methodological integration of tools from multimodal discourse analysis and argumentation in order to unveil opaque argumentative inferences emerging in multimodal configurations (i.e., headlines and press photos) of seemingly non-argumentative genres such as news articles. We offer illustrative examples from the Italian mainstream press in the context of the so-called European ‘refugee crisis.’ Overall, our methodologically oriented proposal aims to deepen the debate in the area of multimodal argumentation. To that end, we sketch a dialogue with other perspectives that specifically study argumentative inference in multimodal configurations. We contend that this approach enables a better examination of …
Acquisition Of Knowledge Through Narrative In Argumentative Processes, Guillermo Sierra-Catalán
Acquisition Of Knowledge Through Narrative In Argumentative Processes, Guillermo Sierra-Catalán
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The objective of this investigation is to study the role that the narrative speech act plays in relation to the acquisition of certain types of knowledge within the frame of argumentative processes. An inferential scheme that regulates the acquisition of knowledge is exposed, as well as an analysis of the reasons adduced. This is used to develop an evaluative method for the argumentative “goodness” of narrative texts. Finally, the particular case of literary narratives is analysed.