Beliefs, Commitments, and Ad Baculum Arguments
Typically, an ad baculum argument is one where an arguer threatens a respondent in order to induce them to adopt a standpoint. It is a fallacy, a common account goes, because the power to impose a standpoint is irrelevant to its truth or acceptability. However, fallacies, if they are to be anything,...
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MDPI AG
2022-04-01
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