Emotional Backing and the Feeling of Deep Disagreement

I discuss Toulmin's (1964) concept of backing with respect to the emotional mode of arguing by examining an example from Fogelin (1985), where emotional backing justifies a warrant concerning when we should judge that a person is being pig-headed. While Fogelin 's treatment is consistent w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard Friemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2005-01-01
Series:Informal Logic
Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/1044