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Informal logic: a handbook for critical argumentation

Choice Reviews OnlinePublished 1 April 1990
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TL;DR

This chapter discusses natural language argumentation as reasoned dialogue, which aims to clarify the role of emotion, bias, and fallacies in argumentation.

Abstract

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Argument as reasoned dialogue 2. Questions and answers in dialogue 3. Criticisms of irrelevance 4. Appeals to emotion 5. Valid arguments 6. Personal attack in argumentation 7. Appeals to authority 8. Inductive errors, bias, and fallacies 9. Natural language argumentation Bibliography Index.

Keywords

Computer Science