The Role of Quasi-Logical Arguments in Critical Dialogue: A Pragma-Dialectical Redefinition

The article focuses on the New Rhetoric’s concept of quasi-logical arguments imitating logical or mathematical demonstrations, and examines it from point of view of pragma-dialectics as a device contributing towards resolving the difference of opinion. It is shown that the category of quasi-logical...

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Main Author: Iva Svačinová
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2017-03-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/4468