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Topical Relevance in Argumentation

✍ Scribed by Douglas Walton


Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1982
Tongue
English
Leaves
89
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond
Category
Library

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✦ 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 β€œirrelevant”. 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 β€œThat’s beside the point!” or β€œThat’s irrelevant!”.


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