Freeman's Syntactic Criterion for Linkage
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https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v35i1.4234Keywords:
argument structure, convergence, James B. Freeman, linkage, refutation, Stephen N. ThomasAbstract
Freeman’s syntactic criterion for linked argument structure (Freeman 2011) is often readily applicable, captures intuitively linked structures, and implies that refuting a single premiss of a linked argument suffices to refute the argument. But one cannot sharply separate analysis from inference evaluation in applying it, whether an argument satisfies it can be uncertain, it under-generates cases where refuting one premiss suffices to refute an argument, some arguments satisfying it can be easily rescued if a single premiss is refuted, and Freeman’s underlying account of probative relevance is dubious.Downloads
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2015-03-05
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