In:Exploring Dialogue: Selected essays on argumentation by Erik C. W. Krabbe with contributions by Jan Albert van Laar
Edited by Erik C.W. Krabbe and Jan Albert van Laar
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Chapter 3The dialectic of quasi-logical arguments
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Article outline
- 1.Introduction: The self-gratulatory argument
- 2.The New Rhetoric’s idea of the quasi-logical
- 3.Are quasi-logical arguments fallacies?
- 4.A profile of dialogue
- 5.An example: The immortality argument
- 6.Summary and conclusions
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