Fallacies in ethical argumentation on abortion

This paper represents a case study of the types of fallacies that may occur in the argumentation stage of an ethical dispute over abortion. The theoretical framework I use is the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation (van Eemeren and Grootendorst 1992, 2004) which conceives of fallacies as viol...

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Main Author: Simona Mazilu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2007-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/fallacies_in_ethical_argumentation_on_abortion