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Commentary On Michel Dufour’S “What Makes A Fallacy Serious?”, Hans Vilhelm Hansen
Commentary On Michel Dufour’S “What Makes A Fallacy Serious?”, Hans Vilhelm Hansen
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What Makes A Fallacy Serious?, Michel Dufour
What Makes A Fallacy Serious?, Michel Dufour
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Among the defining criteria of a fallacy, Douglas Walton requires that its flaw must be serious. This allows his distinction between “serious” fallacies, minor ones, or mere blunders. But what makes a fallacy serious? Isn’t being fallacious serious enough? Walton leaves these questions unanswered but often calls to his distinction between sophism and paralogism. Several ways to apply the adjective “serious” to fallacies are discussed. Some depend on the type, others on structural aspects, and others on a dialectical background.
Institutionalized Argumentative Reasonableness - Commentary On Reijven, Jean H.M. Wagemans
Institutionalized Argumentative Reasonableness - Commentary On Reijven, Jean H.M. Wagemans
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