Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism (J. A. Blair Prize, 2005)

In The Uses of Argument, Toulmin proposed a distinction between fielddependent and field-invariant standards for argument appraisal that gave rise to a relativistic understanding of his theory. The main goal of this paper is to show that epistemological relativism is not a necessary consequence ofTo...

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Main Author: Lilian Bermejo-Luque
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2004-01-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2142