ad hominem arguments
Take My Advice—I Am Not Following It: Ad Hominem Arguments as Legitimate Rebuttals to Appeals to Authority
... If the aforementioned considerations are correct, then ad hominem arguments are not always fallacious. When an appeal to (adminis- trative) authority (of expertise) is made, it seems legitimate to ...
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Virtues, Evidence, and Ad Hominem Arguments
... of ad hominem arguments, and in particular, Johnson’s claim that it can be legitimate to consider a person’s character instead of gathering more evidence in order to evaluate whether the ar- guer’s ...
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Valid Ad Hominem Arguments in Philosophy: Johnstone's Metaphilosophical Informal Logic
... We now come to the third key term in Johnstone's thesis, the term 'philosophi- cal.' Part of what he means can be glimpsed by examining his writings and noting that the concrete histo[r] ...
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Before Name Calling: Dynamics and Triggers of Ad Hominem Fallacies in Web Argumentation
... are ad hominem ...single ad hominem argument (3,396 threads; there are 3,866 ad hominem arguments in total in CMV); only 35 threads contain more than three ad ...
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Lightening up on the Ad Hominem
... appeared Ad Hominem Arguments (Walton ...of Ad Hominem Arguments, and, as I will be the first to say, will have a hard time besting ...
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Discounting testimony with the argument ad hominem and a Bayesian congruent prior model
... the ad hominem. The ad hominem arguments all lead to very large changes in degrees of belief although smaller than in the control where the evidence was directly relevant to the ...the ...
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Polarization and personal attacks in American presidential debates
... Trump did not use significantly more ad hominem arguments than his opponent Clinton and mitigation strategies were rarely used in the debates, but the frequency of ad hominem use wa[r] ...
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In Defence of Virtue: The Legitimacy of Agent-Based Argument Appraisal
... the ad homi- nem fallacy, on which assessing the arguer rather than (or as well as) the argument is stigmatized as fallacious: “Any shift in the direction of an agent-based approach may itself appear to commit ...
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Attacking Character: Ad Hominem Argument and Virtue Epistemology
... her arguments solely on her ...her arguments because her arguments are not likely to be valid or strong and are not likely to produce true ...his arguments may turn out to be valid or strong, ...
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... evaluate arguments as one manifestation of critical ...fallacious arguments, without explicit ...evaluate arguments and identify logical ...evaluate arguments seem to vary depending on the ...
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Why Torts Die
... These arguments carried less weight with courts because similar criticisms could be lodged against many other causes of action, and courts, unlike legislatures, have to defend their decisions as the prod- ucts of ...
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On Novels as Arguments
... ply it in detail to Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. As summarized above, their account seems reasonable as an outline of how one would extract a literary work’s ...
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Walton's Scare Tactics Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats
... Walton next makes a distinction between weak and fallacious arguments: an ad bacu- lum argument may be prudentially weak in the sense that it does not provide adequate answers t[r] ...
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Tense Arguments
... Résumé: La tension est un problème majeur dans l'analyse du discours argumentatif dans le langage ordi- naire. La tension est un opérateur qui montre que l’oratrice est très impli- quée dans son discours et souhaite ...
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Why Arguments from Expert Opinion are Weak Arguments
... Some might think that these facts about E oblige one in an instrumental (or hypothetical) manner, rather than an intrinsic (or categorical) manner. That is, one ought to accept what E says about S if one wants to know ...
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Knockdown Arguments
... baculum fallacy independently of the other elements. And the third factor is built on top of the second: threats aren't good reasons in the type of dialogue that the sales[r] ...
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Enthymematic Arguments
... Although this reaction is natural and ultimately defensible, I prefer to count such arguments as enthymemes and to rest the judgment of their inade- quacy on a sub[r] ...
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Hybrid Arguments
... Key Words: relevance, simple arguments, convergent arguments, linked arguments, hybrid arguments, linked sets, argument diagrams, supplementation, vulnerability, hypervulner[r] ...
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Spectrum arguments and hypersensitivity
... have arguments for the conclusion that ‘all things considered better than’ is not a transitive ...some arguments showing that a number of views that many people find deeply compelling are incompatible’’ ...
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On Arguments from Ignorance
... then, arguments from ignorance have nothing to do with arguing from a lack of evidence to a negative ...argumentum ad ignorantiam is a fallacy of unfair burden of proof shifting, something quite ...are ...
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