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My impulse when I decided to collect into a single volume the essays on topics in logical theory and related subjects that I have written in the last fifteen years was to borrow from the title of a work by Sextus Empiricus, and call my collection "Against the Logicians." Although the essays address a variety of problems that interest me, the thread that runs through them is a scepticism about how logicians see things. So, the title appealed to me. However, I had second thoughts and chose instead a title of one of my own essays, "In Defense of Informal Logic", which emphasizes my support for other approaches. Although my criticisms of logical theory are designed to cut deeply, I do not want to be unresponsive to the needs that it is supposed to satisfy. However, my position that we have adequate resources for critically analyzing a particular argument and 00 not need a theory of argumentation, will not completely satisfy those who think that there is a need for it. So, I want them to know that I am taking their concerns seriously.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Book Title: In Defense of Informal Logic
Authors: Don S. Levi
Series Title: Argumentation Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1850-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6148-0Published: 31 December 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5388-6Published: 09 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1850-9Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1566-7650
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1907
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 224
Topics: Logic, Social Sciences, general