Commitment, Types of Dialogue, and Fallacies

Authors

  • Douglas Walton

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v14i2.2532

Keywords:

fallacies, dialogue, ad hominem, slippery slope, argumentation, maieutic function, dark-side commitments

Abstract

This paper, based on research in a forthcoming monograph, Commitment in Dialogue, undertaken jointly with Erik Krabbe, explains several informal fallacies as shifts from one type of dialogue to another. The normative framework is that of a dialogue where two parties reason together, incurring and retracting commitments to various propositions as the dialogue continues. The fallacies studied include the ad hominem, the slippery slope, and many questions.

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Published

1992-01-01

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (1992)

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