Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning

by Douglas N. Walton, Fabrizio Macagno, Christopher Reed

Book Overview

Recent concerns with the evaluation of argumentation in informal logic and speech communication center around nondemonstrative arguments that lead to tentative or defeasible conclusions based on a balance of considerations. Such arguments do not appear to have structures of the kind traditionally identified with deductive and inductive reasoning, but are extremely common and are often called "plausible" or "presumptive," meaning that they are only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805820728
• ISBN13: 9780805820720
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"