Topical Relevance in Argumentation
β Scribed by Douglas Walton
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 89
- Series
- Pragmatics & Beyond
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
It is a longstanding if not altogether coherent tradition of logic and rhetorical studies that an argument can be incorrect or fallacious in virtue of some proposition in it being βirrelevantβ. This monograph clarifies that tradition. Non-classical propositional calculi, including relevance logics and relatedness logics, are juxtaposed against conversational criticisms of irrelevance in natural argumentation, e.g. in parliamentary debates. The object is to see if there is a reasonable way of evaluating criticisms like βThatβs beside the point!β or βThatβs irrelevant!β.
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