The Uses of Argument / Edition 2

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Overview

The relevance to everyday disputes of the formal logician's results has remained unclear until now. This inquiry accordingly attempts to show how an alternative conception can be of more general value.
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"In spite of initial criticisms from logicians and fellow philosophers, The Uses of Argument has been an enduring source of inspiration and discussion to students of argumentation from all kinds of disciplinary background for more than forty years." Frans van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521534833
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 7/7/2003
  • Edition description: Updated edition
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 246
  • Sales rank: 406,904
  • Product dimensions: 5.43 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.55 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface to the Updated Edition
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction 1
I Fields of Argument and Modals 11
II Probability 41
III The Layout of Arguments 87
IV Working Logic and Idealised Logic 135
V The Origins of Epistemological Theory 195
Conclusion 233
References 239
Index 241
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