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Relevance in Argumentation (Hardcover, New)
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Relevance in Argumentation (Hardcover, New)
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In Relevance in Argumentation, author Douglas Walton presents a new
method for critically evaluating arguments for relevance. This
method enables a critic to judge whether a move can be said to be
relevant or irrelevant, and is based on case studies of
argumentation in which an argument, or part of an argument, has
been criticized as irrelevant. Walton's method is based on a new
theory of relevance that incorporates techniques of argumentation
theory, logic, and artificial intelligence. The work uses a
case-study approach with numerous examples of controversial
arguments, strategies of attack in argumentation, and fallacies.
Walton reviews ordinary cases of irrelevance in argumentation, and
uses them as a basis to advance and develop his new theory of
irrelevance and relevance. The volume also presents a clear account
of the technical problems in the previous attempts to define
relevance, including an analysis of formal systems of relevance
logic and an explanation of the Grecian notion of conversational
relevance. This volume is intended for graduate and advanced
undergraduate courses in those fields using argumentation
theory--especially philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science and
communication studies, in addition to argumentation. The work also
has practical use, as it applies theory directly to familiar
examples of argumentation in daily and professional life. With a
clear and comprehensive method for determining relevance and
irrelevance, it can be convincingly applied to highly significant
practical problems about relevance, including those in legal and
political argumentation.
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