Trudy Govier and Premise Adequacy

Trudy Govier and Premise Adequacy

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My main concern in this paper is with Trudy Govier’s acceptability criterion for the adequacy of the premises of an argument considered independently of whether they are “properly connected” to the conclusion. I consider arguments she makes against the view that a good argument must have true premis...

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Main Author: Derek Allen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2013-05-01
Series:Informal Logic
Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/3891
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spelling doaj-2cd003e4476a45b894478f412eaef02c2021-06-14T17:00:46ZengUniversity of WindsorInformal Logic0824-25772293-734X2013-05-01332Trudy Govier and Premise AdequacyDerek Allen0University of TorontoMy main concern in this paper is with Trudy Govier’s acceptability criterion for the adequacy of the premises of an argument considered independently of whether they are “properly connected” to the conclusion. I consider arguments she makes against the view that a good argument must have true premises, and I con-tend that a theory of argument could hold both that for an argument to be a good argument its premises must be true and that for it to be a good argument relative to its audience, the audience must be epistemically justified in accepting its premises as true.https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/3891
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description My main concern in this paper is with Trudy Govier’s acceptability criterion for the adequacy of the premises of an argument considered independently of whether they are “properly connected” to the conclusion. I consider arguments she makes against the view that a good argument must have true premises, and I con-tend that a theory of argument could hold both that for an argument to be a good argument its premises must be true and that for it to be a good argument relative to its audience, the audience must be epistemically justified in accepting its premises as true.
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