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In:Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peng Wu
[Argumentation in Context 12] 2017
► pp. 37–58

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Chapter 3
Fallacies as derailments of argumentative discourse

Acceptance based on understanding and critical assessment

Published online: 12 December 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.12.03van
Article outline
  • 1.Engaging in a pragma-dialectical approach of argumentation
  • 2.Maintaining reasonableness in argumentative discourse
  • 3.Aiming for effectiveness in argumentative discourse
  • 4.Strategic maneuvering to combine effectiveness and reasonableness
  • 5.The need for a comprehensive approach of the fallacies
  • 6.The pragma-dialectical treatment of the fallacies
  • 7.Strategic maneuvering and the deceptiveness of fallacies
  • 8.Context-independent criteria for judging fallaciousness
  • 9.Context-dependent criteria for judging fallaciousness
  • Notes
  • References
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