Charity and the Reiteration Problem for Enthymemes
Any enthymeme can be made logically valid by adding as a suppressed premise a conditional that reiterates the argument's stated content and inferential structure in if-then form, We cannot blanketly prohibit reiteration to avoid this sort of trivialization, because some enthymemes legitimately...
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| description | Any enthymeme can be made logically valid by adding as a suppressed premise a conditional that reiterates the argument's stated content and inferential structure in if-then form, We cannot blanketly prohibit reiteration to avoid this sort of trivialization, because some enthymemes legitimately require completion by reiterative conditionals, The solution proposed here is to allow reiterative expansions, but to rank them, other things being equal, as less charitable than nonreiterative expansions. Reiterative expansions can then be chosen as the most charitable only when all nonreiterative expansions have been eliminated for independent reasons. This pluralistic model encourages experimentation with a number of different permissible expansions in evaluating enthymemes, from the least controversial or problematic to the most trivializing and the least charitable. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-94f7b39980454bfda20623c851821b6b2022-12-22T01:55:19ZengUniversity of WindsorInformal Logic0824-25772293-734X1996-01-0118110.22329/il.v18i1.2364Charity and the Reiteration Problem for EnthymemesDale JacquetteAny enthymeme can be made logically valid by adding as a suppressed premise a conditional that reiterates the argument's stated content and inferential structure in if-then form, We cannot blanketly prohibit reiteration to avoid this sort of trivialization, because some enthymemes legitimately require completion by reiterative conditionals, The solution proposed here is to allow reiterative expansions, but to rank them, other things being equal, as less charitable than nonreiterative expansions. Reiterative expansions can then be chosen as the most charitable only when all nonreiterative expansions have been eliminated for independent reasons. This pluralistic model encourages experimentation with a number of different permissible expansions in evaluating enthymemes, from the least controversial or problematic to the most trivializing and the least charitable.https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2364charityprinciple of charitycharity rankingsenthymemesound argument(conditional)reiteration |
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| title | Charity and the Reiteration Problem for Enthymemes |
| title_full | Charity and the Reiteration Problem for Enthymemes |
| title_fullStr | Charity and the Reiteration Problem for Enthymemes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Charity and the Reiteration Problem for Enthymemes |
| title_short | Charity and the Reiteration Problem for Enthymemes |
| title_sort | charity and the reiteration problem for enthymemes |
| topic | charity principle of charity charity rankings enthymeme sound argument (conditional)reiteration |
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