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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction
Need for a Systematic Study
Aristotle’s Topics
Informal Fallacies
How are Schemes Normatively Binding?
Practical Reasoning
Plausible Reasoning
Argumentation Schemes and Themes
Chapter Two: Presumptive Reasoning
Received Views of Presumption
Introduction to Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Burden of Proof
Commitment and Burden Shifting
Speech Act Conditions Defining Presumption
Presumptions and Presuppositions
Testimony, Presumption and Fallacies
Introduction to the Fallacy of Secundum Quid
The Practical Nature of Presumption
Implications for Argumentation and Fallacies
Chapter Three: The Argumentation Schemes
Argument from Sign
Argument from Example
Argument from Verbal Classification
Argument from Commitment
Circumstantial Argument Against the Person
Argument from Position to Know
Argument from Expert Opinion
Argument from Evidence to a Hypothesis
Argument from Correlation to Cause
Argument from Cause to Effect
Argument from Consequences
Argument from Analogy
Argument from Waste
Argument from Popularity
Ethotic Argument
Argument from Bias
Argument from an Established Rule
Argument from Precedent
Argument from Gradualism
The Causal Slippery Slope Argument
The Precedent Slippery Slope Argument
Argument from Vagueness of a Verbal Classification
Argument from Arbitrariness of a Verbal Classification
The Verbal Slippery Slope Argument
The Full Slippery Slope Argument
Chapter Four: Argument From Ignorance
Four Cases
Argument from Ignorance as Presumptive Reasoning
Contexts of Dialogue
A Reasonable Kind of Argument
What Counts as an Argument from Ignorance?
The Negative Logic of Argumentum ad Ignorantiam
When is it Fallacious?
Related Fallacies
Fallacies and Blunders
Concluding Remarks
Chapter Five: Ignoring Qualifications
Terminology and Classification
Accident and Converse Accident
The Raw Meat Example
Aristotle’s Account
Historical Developments
Nonmonotonic Reasoning Again
A Model Treatment
Dynamic Reasoning
Protagorean Relativism
Conclusions
Chapter Six: Argument From Consequences
The Claim that it is Fallacious
Views of the Amsterdam School
Practical and Discursive Reasoning
Pragma-dialectical Nature of Argument from Consequences
Appropriate Dialectical Situations
Consequences of Putting Forward a Point of View
Dialectical Structure of Argument from Consequences
Subfallacies of Argumentum ad Consequentiam
Related Fallacies
The Project of Evaluation
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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