Informal Fallacies

• Prelim pages | pp. i–vi
• Table of contents | pp. vii–x
• Chapter 1: A New Model of Argument | pp. 1–32
• 1. Introduction to the Fallacies
• 2. Some More Fallacies
• 3. Fallacies Combined in Realistic Dialogues
• 4. What is an Argument?
• 5. Criticism as Challenge and Response
• 6. Basic Categories of Argument Study
• Notes: Chapter 1
• Chapter 2: Hot Rhetoric and Argument | pp. 33–62
• 1. Appeals to Popular Sentiment
• 2. Appeals to Force
• 3. Appeals to Pity
• 4. Overly Personal Argumentation
• 5. The Rhetorical Debate
• 6. Case Study: Parliamentary Debate
• 7. Conclusion
• Notes: Chapter 2
• Chapter 3: The Logic of Propositions | pp. 63–96
• 1. Deductive Validity
• 2. Formal Logic
• 3. Classical Propositional Calculus
• 4. Applying Deductive Logic to Arguments
• 5. Invalidity and Fallaciousness
• 6. Relevance and Validity
• 7. Subject-Matter Relatedness
• 8. Relatedness Logic
• 9. Semantics and Pragmatics
• 10. What is a Fallacy?
• Notes: Chapter 3
• Chapter 4: Logical Dialogue-Games | pp. 97–132
• 1. Different Approaches to Formal Dialogues
• 2. The Ad Ignorantiam Fallacy
• 3. Fallacies of Question-Asking
• 4. The Fallacy of Many Questions
• 5. Demanding Direct Answers to Questions
• 6. Misconception of Refutation
• 7. Case Studies of Political Debates
• 8. A Game with Dark-Side Commitments
• Notes: Chapter 4
• Chapter 5: Enthymemes | pp. 133–156
• 1. The Tradition of Enthymemes
• 2. The Objectives of Dialogue
• 3. Veiled Commitment-Sets
• 4. Strategy and Plausibility
• 5. The Problem Resolved
• 6. Order of the Premisses
• 7. Multiple Premisses in Complex Arguments
• Notes: Chapter 5
• Chapter 6: Longer Sequences of Argumentation | pp. 157–184
• 1. Sequences of Argumentation
• 2. Graphs of Arguments
• 3. Case Study: Argument on Sex Education
• 4. Case Study: Circular Argumentation
• 5. Plausibility Conditions on Arguments
• 6. The Missing Links
• 7. Conclusions on Circular Arguments
• Notes: Chapter 6
• Chapter 7: Fallacious Arguments From Authority | pp. 185–202
• 1. How Appeals to Authority Can Go Wrong
• 2. Plausible Argument
• 3. Where Experts Disagree
• 4. Expertise and Legal Dialogue
• 5. Dialogue and Expertise
• 6. Conclusions
• Notes: Chapter 7
• Chapter 8: Various Fallacies | pp. 203–216
• 1. Inductive Fallacies
• 2. Deductive and Inductive Arguments
• 3. Post Hoc Arguments
• 4. Slippery Slope
• 5. Equivocation
• 6. Amphiboly
• 7. Composition and Division
• Chapter 9: Arguments Against the Person | pp. 217–240
• 1. Poisoning the Well
• 2. The Sportsman's Rejoinder
• 3. Evaluating Ad Hominem Disputations
• 4. Four Types of Circumstantial Ad Hominem
• 5. Rhetorical Context of Ad Hominem Attacks
• 6. Positional Defensibility
• 7. Conclusion
• Notes: Chapter 9
• Chapter 10: Equivocation | pp. 241–288
• 1. What is Equivocation?
• 2. Vagueness and Criticisms of Equivocality
• 3. The Problem of Subtle Equivocations
• 4. Deep Deception and Equivocal Dialogue
• 5. Many-Valued Logic for Equivocators
• 6. Priests's System LP
• 7. Applying LP to the Fallacy of Equivocation
• 8. R-Mingle as a Logic for Equivocators
• 9. RM and Equivocation
• 10. Conclusions
• Notes: Chapter 10
• Chapter 11: Informal Logic as a Discipline | pp. 289–322
• 1. The Role of Formal Logic
• 2. Dialectic as a Theory of Argument
• 3. Function of Why-Questions
• 4. Subject-Specific Nature of Arguments
• 5. Case Studies on Circular Reasoning
• 6. Conversational Pragmatics
• 7. Pedagogical Directions for Informal Logic
• Notes: Chapter 11
• | pp. 323–330
• Index | pp. 331–336

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