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- Title
Speech Acts and Indirect Threats in Ad Baculum Arguments. A Reply to Budzynska and Witek.
- Authors
Walton, Douglas
- Abstract
The importance of speech acts for analyzing and evaluating argumentation in cases where it is suspected that the ad baculum fallacy has been committed is demonstrated in this paper by using a typical textbook example of this fallacy. It is shown how the argument in the example can be analyzed and evaluated using the devices of Gricean implicature and indirect speech acts. It is shown how these two devices can be applied to extrapolate the evidence furnished by the text and dialectical context of the example.
- Subjects
APPEAL to force (Logical fallacy); LOGICAL fallacies; ARGUMENT; REASONING; THOUGHT &; thinking
- Publication
Argumentation, 2014, Vol 28, Issue 3, p317
- ISSN
0920-427X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10503-014-9318-2