A Dialectical Analysis of the Ad Baculum Fallacy
This paper applies dialectical argumentation structures to the problem of analyzing the ad baculum fallacy. It is shown how it is necessary in order to evaluate a suspected instance of the this fallacy to proceed through three levels of analysis: (1) an inferential level, represented by an argument...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Windsor
2014-09-01
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Series: | Informal Logic |
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Online Access: | https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/4109 |