Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation
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Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation
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Author : Fabrizio Macagno
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-09-06
Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation written by Fabrizio Macagno and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book shows how research in linguistic pragmatics, philosophy of language, and rhetoric can be connected through argumentation to analyze a recognizably common strategy used in political and everyday conversation, namely the distortion of another’s words in an argumentative exchange. Straw man argumentation refers to the modification of a position by misquoting, misreporting or wrenching the original speaker’s statements from their context in order to attack them more easily or more effectively. Through 63 examples taken from different contexts (including political and forensic discourses and dialogs) and 20 legal cases, the book analyzes the explicit and implicit types of straw man, shows how to assess the correctness of a quote or a report, and illustrates the arguments that can be used for supporting an interpretation and defending against a distortion. The tools of argumentation theory, a discipline aimed at investigating the uses of arguments by combining insights from pragmatics, logic, and communication, are applied to provide an original account of interpretation and reporting, and to describe and illustrate tactics and procedures that can be used and implemented for practical purposes.. This book will appeal to scholars in the fields of political communication, communication in general, argumentation theory, rhetoric and pragmatics, as well as to people working in public speech, speech writing, and discourse analysis.
Straw Man Arguments
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Author : Scott Aikin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-10
Straw Man Arguments written by Scott Aikin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-10 with Philosophy categories.
This book analyses the straw man fallacy and its deployment in philosophical reasoning. While commonly invoked in both academic dialogue and public discourse, it has not until now received the attention it deserves as a rhetorical device. Scott Aikin and John Casey propose that straw manning essentially consists in expressing distorted representations of one's critical interlocutor. To this end, the straw man comprises three dialectical forms, and not only the one that is usually suggested: the straw man, the weak man and the hollow man. Moreover, they demonstrate that straw manning is unique among fallacies as it has no particular logical form in itself, because it is an instance of inappropriate meta-argument, or argument about arguments. They discuss the importance of the onlooking audience to the successful deployment of the straw man, reasoning that the existence of an audience complicates the dialectical boundaries of argument. Providing a lively, provocative and thorough analysis of the straw man fallacy, this book will appeal to postgraduates and researchers alike, working in a range of fields including fallacies, rhetoric, argumentation theory and informal logic.
Logically Fallacious
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Author : Bo Bennett
language : en
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2012-02-19
Logically Fallacious written by Bo Bennett and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-19 with Education categories.
This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions. Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies with all original examples and easy to understand descriptions, perfect for educators, debaters, or anyone who wants to improve his or her reasoning skills. "Expose an irrational belief, keep a person rational for a day. Expose irrational thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime." - Bo Bennett This 2021 Edition includes dozens of more logical fallacies with many updated examples.
The Pragmatics Of Straw Man Fallacies An Experimental Approach
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Author : Jennifer Schumann
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-07-25
The Pragmatics Of Straw Man Fallacies An Experimental Approach written by Jennifer Schumann and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-25 with Philosophy categories.
This open-access book provides the first experimental pragmatic investigation of the straw man, uncovering a variety of factors that increase or decrease the acceptability of this fallacy. The book starts with an overview of the primarily theoretical frameworks on argumentation/fallacies and the straw man. The aim is to provide a synthetic review of the research conducted in argumentation and the study of fallacies with a strong focus on modern approaches and the role of language within these approaches. It is followed by an overview of the empirical methods in argumentation, which leads the reader to the core part of the book, i.e., the experimental pragmatic approach to the straw man fallacy. This part of the book presents several original studies assessing the role of different linguistic factors in the perception of straw men. The book is structured as follows: Chapter 1 introduces the book. The reader will be familiarised with the topic of the straw man as a fallacious argument and the research axes of the book. Chapter 2 provides an overview of argumentation and fallacy theory, and the role of language in the selected approaches. Chapter 3 discusses various theoretical approaches to the straw man fallacy. Chapter 4 provides an overview of empirical methodologies in argumentation. Chapter 5 presents a series of exploratory studies discussing three pragmatic factors. Chapter 6 addresses the question of information structure for the communication of straw man fallacies. Chapter 7 presents a more detailed analysis of the role of causal connectives used to introduce an argument. Chapter 8 presents a cross-linguistic examination of the role of causal connectives with attributive functions. Chapter 9 focuses on the refutational dimension of the straw man fallacy. The previous chapters have mainly investigated factors related to the misrepresentational dimension of the straw man. Chapter 10 provides a summary of the main findings and opens toward future lines of investigation. The book targets young and senior scholars interested in research on straw man fallacies, experimental approaches to the study of fallacies and argumentation in general.
Argumentation Schemes For Presumptive Reasoning
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Author : Douglas N. Walton
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1996
Argumentation Schemes For Presumptive Reasoning written by Douglas N. Walton and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Fallacies In Reasoning
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Author : M. Ashraf Adeel
language : en
Publisher: M. Ashraf Adeel
Release Date : 2021-11-10
Fallacies In Reasoning written by M. Ashraf Adeel and has been published by M. Ashraf Adeel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-10 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a very brief introduction to informal fallacies that can occur in our reasoning both in ordinary life and in scholarly work. It is important for us as thinking beings to be alerted to these pitfalls of reasoning. While there is no dearth of introductory texts that discuss fallacies, separate and simple treatments of fallacies are few and far between. This little booklet has been written with a view to making a very simple and stand-alone presentation of important informal fallacies. The idea is to provide beginning readers with an easily accessible introduction, which they can read completely in one or two sittings without having to purchase or find a whole book of Logic or Critical Thinking. The hope is that the readers of these pages will end up trying to avoid these fallacies more assiduously in their life and work.
Interpreting Plato Socratically
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Author : J. Angelo Corlett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-17
Interpreting Plato Socratically written by J. Angelo Corlett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Philosophy categories.
J. Angelo Corlett’s new book, Interpreting Plato Socratically continues the critical discussion of the Platonic Question where Corlett’s book, Interpreting Plato’s Dialogues concluded. New arguments in favor of the Mouthpiece Interpretation of Plato’s works are considered and shown to be fallacious, as are new objections to some competing approaches to Plato’s works. The Platonic Question is the problem of how to approach and interpret Plato’s writings most of which are dialogues. How, if at all, can Plato’s beliefs, doctrines, theories and such be extracted from dialogues where there is no direct indication from Plato that his own views are even to be found therein? Most philosophers of Plato attempt to decipher from Plato’s texts seemingly all manner of ideas expressed by Socrates which they then attribute to Plato. They seek to ascribe to Plato particular views about justice, art, love, virtue, knowledge, and the like because, they believe, Socrates is Plato’s mouthpiece through the dialogues. But is such an approach justified? What are the arguments in favor of such an approach? Is there a viable alternative approach to Plato’s dialogues? In this rigorous account of the dominant approach to Plato’s dialogues, there is no room left for reasonable doubt about the problematic reasons given for the notion that Plato’s dialogues reveal either Plato’s or Socrates’ beliefs, doctrines or theories about substantive philosophical matters. Corlett’s approach to Plato’s dialogues is applied to a variety of passages throughout Plato’s works on a wide range of topics concerning justice. In-depth discussions of themes such as legal obligation, punishment and compensatory justice are clarified and with some surprising results. Plato’s works serve as a rich source of philosophical thinking about such matters. A central question in today’s Platonic studies is whether Socrates, or any other protagonist in the dialogues, presents views that the author wanted to assert or defend. Professor Corlett offers a detailed defense of his view that the role of Socrates is to raise questions rather than to provide the author’s answers to them. This defense is timely as intellectual historians consider the part played by Academic scholars centuries after Plato in systematizing Platonism. J. J. Mulhern, University of Pennsylvania
Dialog Theory For Critical Argumentation
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Author : Douglas N. Walton
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2007-09-19
Dialog Theory For Critical Argumentation written by Douglas N. Walton and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Because of the need to devise systems for electronic communication on the internet, multi-agent computing is moving to a model of communication as a structured conversation between rational agents. For example, in multi-agent systems, an electronic agent searches around the internet, and collects certain kinds of information by asking questions to other agents. Such agents also reason with each other when they engage in negotiation and persuasion. It is shown in this book that critical argumentation is best represented in this framework by the model of reasoned argument called a dialog, in which two or more parties engage in a polite and orderly exchange with each other according to rules governed by conversation policies. In such dialog argumentation, the two parties reason together by taking turns asking questions, offering replies, and offering reasons to support a claim. They try to settle their disagreements by an orderly conversational exchange that is partly adversarial and partly collaborative.
From Lying To Perjury
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Author : Laurence R. Horn
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-06-06
From Lying To Perjury written by Laurence R. Horn and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. Not all deceptive statements are lies; not every lie under oath amounts to perjury—but what are the relevant criteria? Taxonomies of falsehood based on illocutionary force, utterance context and speakers’ intentions have been debated by linguists, moral philosophers, social psychologists and cognitive scientists. Legal scholars have examined the boundary between actual perjury and garden-variety lies. The fourteen previously unpublished essays in this book apply theoretical and empirical tools to delineate the landscape of falsehood, half-truth, perjury, and verbal manipulation, including puffery, bluffing, and bullshit. The papers in this collection address conceptual and ethical aspects of lying vs. misleading and the correlation of this opposition with the Gricean pragmatic distinction between what is said and what is implicated. The questions of truth and lies addressed in this volume have long engaged the attention of scholars in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, organizational research, and the law, and researchers from all these fields will find this book of interest.
Cognition And Conditionals
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Author : Mike Oaksford
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2010
Cognition And Conditionals written by Mike Oaksford and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The conditional, if...then, is probably the most important term in natural language and forms the core of systems of logic and mental representation. Cognition and Conditionals is the first volume for over 20 years that brings together recent developments in the cognitive science and psychology of conditional reasoning.