Informal Logic is an introductory guidebook to the basic principles
of constructing sound arguments and criticizing bad ones.
Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which
Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic,
discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton
explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument
occur. He shows how correct uses of argument are based on sound
strategies for reasoned persuasion and critical responses. Among
the many subjects covered are: forms of valid argument, defeasible
arguments, relevance, appeals to emotion, personal attack, straw
man argument, jumping to a conclusion, uses and abuses of expert
opinion, problems in drawing conclusions from polls and statistics,
loaded terms, equivocation, arguments from analogy, and techniques
of posing, replying to, and criticizing questions. This new edition
takes into account many new developments in the field of
argumentation study that have occurred since 1989, many created by
the author. Drawing on these developments, Walton includes and
analyzes 36 new topical examples and also brings in recent work on
argumentation schemes. Ideally suited for use in courses in
informal logic and introduction to philosophy, this book will also
be valuable to students of pragmatics, rhetoric, and speech
communication.
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