The Coherence of Hamblin’s Fallacies

Authors

  • Ralph Johnson University of Windsor, Ontario

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v31i4.3345

Keywords:

dialectic, equivocation, Hamblin, logic

Abstract

Hamblin’s Fallacies remains one of the crucial documents in the development of informal logic and argumentation theory. His critique of traditional approaches to the fallacies (what he dubbed ‘The Standard Treatment’) helped to revitalize the study of fallacies. Recently I had occasion to reread Fallacies and came to the conclusion that some of my earlier criticisms (1989, 1990) had missed the real force of what was going on there, that I and others have perhaps not fully appreciated what Hamblin is up to. In this paper, I plan to revisit Fallacies and make manifest its coherence.

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Published

2011-11-29

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 4 (2011): Special Issue on Charles Hamblin

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