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Shaping The Adversary Culture, Richard Gaskins
Shaping The Adversary Culture, Richard Gaskins
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Our varied communities of discourse face a rhetorical future shaped by juridical styles reminiscent of the "adversary culture" postulated by post-war American critic Lionel Trilling. Itself the subject of litigious debate, the adversarial spirit today shows few signs of weakening, but its influence can be better understood and guided along certain tracks. To influence this adversarial style in coming decades, we need to explore the difference between evidence-based reasoning, which draws on the sensationalist logic of induction, and reflexive reasoning, which draws on the second-order logic of presumption. This reflexive style expands in an "information age" saturated with symbolic expression …
Theory Dependence, Context Dependence, Tacit Knowledge, And Informal Logic, Peter D. Asquith
Theory Dependence, Context Dependence, Tacit Knowledge, And Informal Logic, Peter D. Asquith
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Commentary On Asquith, Trudy Govier
Bias, Bayes, And Group Psychology, Guillermo Barron
Bias, Bayes, And Group Psychology, Guillermo Barron
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‘Argument’ And ‘Logic’ In Logic Textbooks, J Anthony Blair
‘Argument’ And ‘Logic’ In Logic Textbooks, J Anthony Blair
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The Newtonian Revolution As A Revolution In Scientific Reasoning, Pierre J. Boulos
The Newtonian Revolution As A Revolution In Scientific Reasoning, Pierre J. Boulos
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Varieties Of Argument In Indian Thought, Richard S G Brown
Varieties Of Argument In Indian Thought, Richard S G Brown
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Commentary On Campolo, Michael A. Gilbert
Commentary On Campolo, Michael A. Gilbert
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The Uses Of Argument: A Contextual Application, Patrick Clauss
The Uses Of Argument: A Contextual Application, Patrick Clauss
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Commentary On Clauss, Richard Fulkerson
Commentary On Cohen, Joseph A. Novak
Arts Controversies And The Problem Of The Public Sphere, Peter Cramer
Arts Controversies And The Problem Of The Public Sphere, Peter Cramer
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Arguing With God, Daniel H. Cohen
Commentary On Cramer, Jeff Noonan
Commentary On Cunningham, Randal Marlin
Analogy And Narrative: Caring About The Forgone And Repressed, Jackie Davies
Analogy And Narrative: Caring About The Forgone And Repressed, Jackie Davies
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Commentary On Davies, Christina Slade
Commentary On Van Eemeren & Houtlosser, Joseph Wenzel
Commentary On Van Eemeren & Houtlosser, Joseph Wenzel
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Qualified Reasoning Approaching Deductive Validity, Robert H. Ennis
Qualified Reasoning Approaching Deductive Validity, Robert H. Ennis
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The Role Of Arguments From Consequences In Practical Argumentation, Eveline T. Feteris
The Role Of Arguments From Consequences In Practical Argumentation, Eveline T. Feteris
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Can Interpretations Ever Be Acceptable Basic Premises?, James B. Freeman
Can Interpretations Ever Be Acceptable Basic Premises?, James B. Freeman
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Reducing Conflict Between Ordinary People By Third Party Interventions, Richard Friemann
Reducing Conflict Between Ordinary People By Third Party Interventions, Richard Friemann
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Problems In Systematic Analysis Of “Full-Length” Arguments, And Some Possible Contributions From Contemporary Composition Theory, Richard Fulkerson
Problems In Systematic Analysis Of “Full-Length” Arguments, And Some Possible Contributions From Contemporary Composition Theory, Richard Fulkerson
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Commentary On Fulkerson, Claude Gratton
Ideal Argumentation, Michael A. Gilbert
On The Relation Of Argumentation And Inference, David M. Godden
On The Relation Of Argumentation And Inference, David M. Godden
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Commentary On Godden, Robert C. Pinto
Commentary On Goodwin, Christopher W. Tindale
Commentary On Goodwin, Christopher W. Tindale
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One Question, Two Answers, Jean Goodwin
Collective Responsibility And The Fallacies Of Composition And Division, Trudy Govier
Collective Responsibility And The Fallacies Of Composition And Division, Trudy Govier
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