Look, Ma! No Frans!

Wreen, Michael J.

doi:10.1075/pc.2.2.06wre

Discussion published In: Pragmatics & Cognition
Vol. 2:2 (1994) ► pp.285–306

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Look, Ma! No Frans!

Michael J. Wreen | Marquette University

Published online: 1 January 1994

https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.2.2.06wre

This paper criticizes the pragma-dialectical conception of a fallacy, according to which a fallacy is an argumentative speech act which violates one or more of the rules of 'rational discussion'. That conception is found to be neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for committing a fallacy. It is also found wanting in several other respects.

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