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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018-09-01
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| Series: | Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0032 |