In defense of informal logic:
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| adam_text | IN DEFENSE OF
INFORMAL LOGIC
by
DON S LEVI
University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon, U S A
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv
1 IN DEFENSE OF INFORMAL LOGIC 1
1 1 Ad hominem rhetoric that is not an argument 2
1 2 Informal Logic should not be expected to provide tests of correctness 4
1 3 The unwarranted assumption behind Lambert amp; Ulrich s argument 8
1 4 Towards a better understanding of what a fallacy is 11
1 5 Conclusion: reflections on the need for a theory of fallacy 13
Notes 14
2 BEGGING WHAT is AT ISSUE IN THE ARGUMENT 16
2 1 Begging the conclusion in a sequence of propositions 16
2 2 Begging what is at issue in the argument 19
2 3 Walton s dialogical analysis of begging the question 22
2 4 Conclusion 26
Notes 27
3 THE FALLACY IN THE TREATMENT OF THE AD BACULUM AS A FALLACY 29
3 1 Wreen on a mugging as a non-fallacious ad baculum 29
3 2 The ad baculum as a tactic to avoid or put an end to argument 31
3 3 Wreen on the irrelevance of what the speaker is doing 33
3 4 The importance of considering an argument in its context 34
3 5 The problem of identifying the premises and conclusion 35
3 6 What an argument is 37
3 7 Conclusion: what we are doing when we call something a fallacy 39
Notes 40
4 IN DEFENSE OF RHETORIC 42
41A rhetorical approach to argument 42
4 2 The argument against the rhetorical approach 46
4 3 Perelman on audience adherence 47
4 4 Weddle on how argument correctness is audience-dependent 51
4 5 Rhetoric or Logic; a false dichotomy? 53
4 6 Conclusion 56
Notes 58
5 TOWARDS A MORE DYNAMIC CONCEPTION OF ARGUMENT 59
5 1 Different uses of argument 60
viii TABLE OF CONTENTS
5 2 Problems with the definition of argument 64
5 3 The reconstruction of an argument that has been given 67
5 4 What is at issue in the reading and analysis of an argument 69
5 5 Conclusion 74
Notes 75
6 THE CASE OF THE MISSING PREMISE 77
6 1 The problem as illustrated by contrived examples 77
6 2 Supplying a contrived example with a rhetorical context 81
6 3 Govier on the enthymeme 83
6 4 The PC Requirement 87
6 5 The critical analysis of an actual argument 88
6 6 Conclusion 93
Notes 94
7 THE LIMITS OF CRITICAL THINKING 96
7 1 Fogelin on the limits of critical thinking 96
7 2 Normal and abnormal argumentative exchanges 100
7 3 Framework propositions 101
7 4 The inarguability of the key abortion premise 102
7 5 Karen Warren on conceptual frameworks 106
7 6 Andrew Lugg s diagnosis of Fogelin s mistake 108
7 7 Conclusion: the issue raised by Fogelin s argument 109
Notes 110
8 WHY DO ILLITERATES DO SO BADLY IN LOGIC? 111
8 1 Interpreting the responses of illiterate experimental subjects 111
8 2 What is the right answer to the logic problem? 115
8 3 The argument that the illiterates do reason deductively 118
8 4 Is there a logic language function in everyday reasoning? 121
8 5 Conclusion 123
Notes 123
9 TEACHING LOGIC: HOW TO OVERCOME THE LIMITATIONS OF THE
CLASSROOM 125
9 1 Why do students do so badly in Logic? 126
9 2 What a difference a first day makes 129
9 3 Giving a critical reading to actual rhetoric 132
9 4 Conclusion: the paradox of teaching critical thinking 136
Notes 138
10 THE APPLICATION OF LOGIC TO FIELDS OTHER THAN ITSELF 139
10 1 Exclusive and nonexclusive truth functional disjunction 141
10 2 The existence of the exclusive or in everyday discourse 143
TABLE OF CONTENTS ix
10 3 The application of truth-functional analysis to the field of Logic 146
10 4 Whether the logic problem is a practical application 148
10 5 The application of what is devised to fields outside of Logic 149
10 6 Conclusion 151
Notes 153
11 THE GETTIER PROBLEM AND THE PARABLE OF TEN COINS 154
11 1 The Gettier Problem and the problems with it 154
11 2 A dramatization of a Gettier Counterexample 157
11 3 Changing the example to get it to be a Gettier counterexample 160
11 4 Existential Generalization applies to Logic propositions 162
11 5 The underlying assumption of the Gettier Problem 165
11 6 Conclusion 167
Notes 168
12 THE UNBEARABLE VAGUENESS OF BEING 169
12 1 The borderline case conception of vagueness 169
12 2 The problem of what constitutes an application of a predicate 172
12 3 The Sorites Paradox 176
12 4 Why the Sorites matters 181
12 5 Conclusion 183
Notes 183
13 ZHUANGZI: PHILOSOPHICAL DISPUTATION AS TRANSFORMATIVE 185
13 1 Philosophy and transformation 185
13 2 Voices in illumination 187
13 3 The conflict between the Mohists and Confucians 191
13 4 Smoothing things out on the whetstone of Heaven 194
13 5 The happy fishes 196
13 6 What saying says is not fixed 198
13 7 The relation of language to a differenceless Reality 200
13 8 The ontology of language 202
13 9 Conclusion 205
Notes 207
References 209
Name Index 217
Subject Index 221
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