Revision and Immortality in Philosophical Argumentation: Continuing Thoughts on the Rhetorical Wedge

This essay explores Johnstone's idea that "rhetoric is a wedge." In particular, it explores the place of this idea in Johnstone's philosophy of argument, the need to confront this idea with argument, and ways of confronting it with ad rem and ad hominem arguments.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mari Lee Mifsud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2001-01-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2236