Johnstone's View of Rhetorical and Dialectical Argument

Authors

  • Douglas Walton

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v21i1.2235

Keywords:

metaphilosophy, commitment, fallacies, philosophical argument, analytical philosophy, valid argument, persuasion, dialogue

Abstract

In the writings of Henry W. Johnstone, Jr. there can be found an evolving and gradually more sophisticated discussion of the relationship between rhetorical and dialectical argument. Johnstone's view on these matters was highly original, and at odds with the prevailing logical empiricism of the time, much like Toulmin's views on argumentation in The Uses of Argument (1958). In view of the rising importance of the issue of the relationship between rhetoric and informal logic, Johnstone's analysis of the argumentum ad hominem, and its relationship to Hamblin's notion of commitment, is especially worth careful consideration.

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Published

2001-01-01

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2001)

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