The Abuses of Argument: Understanding Fallacies on Toulmin’s Layout of Argument

This paper provides a preliminary account of fallacies on Toulmin’s model of argument, one that improves upon previous attempts to understand fallacies on this argument scheme. To do this Johnson and Blair’s (1983) taxonomy of three basic fallacies (irrelevant reason, hasty conclusion and problemati...

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Main Author: Andrew Pineau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2013-12-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/3900
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