A New Argument Scheme for Causal Explanations by Analogy? The Case of Galileo’s Explanation of the Tides

This paper is a case study. After formulating three norms for critical assessment of argumentation (section 1), I give a brief overview of Galileo’s argumentative strategy in his Dialogue and present his argument for the cause of the tides, which appears as an argument by analogy (section 2). I then...

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Main Author: Kremling Alexander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-09-01
Series:Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0032