Question-Reply Argumentation

by Douglas N. Walton

Walton's book is a study of several fallacies in informal logic. Focusing on question-answer dialogues, and committed to a pragmatic rather than a semantic approach, he attempts to generate criteria for evaluating good and bad questions and answers. The book contains a discussion of such well-recognized fallacies as many questions, black-or-white questions, loaded questions, circular arguments, question-begging assertions and epithets, ad hominem...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313267898
• ISBN13: 9780313267895
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"