Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation
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Beschreibung
This book provides theoretical tools for evaluating the soundness of arguments in the context of legal argumentation. It deals with a number of general argument types and their particular use in legal argumentation. It provides detailed analyses of argument from authority, argument ad hominem, argument from ignorance, slippery slope argument and other general argument types. Each of these argument types can be used to construct arguments that are sound as well as arguments that are unsound. To evaluate an argument correctly one must be able to distinguish the sound instances of a certain argument type from its unsound instances. This book promotes the development of theoretical tools for this task.
This book provides theoretical tools for evaluating the soundness of arguments in the context of legal argumentation. It deals with a number of general argument types and their particular use in legal argumentation. It provides detailed analyses of argument from authority, argument ad hominem, argument from ignorance, slippery slope argument and other general argument types. Each of these argument types can be used to construct arguments that are sound as well as arguments that are unsound. To evaluate an argument correctly one must be able to distinguish the sound instances of a certain argument type from its unsound instances. This book promotes the development of theoretical tools for this task.
Offers useful tools that can be applied in the evaluation of legal arguments Includes important recent advances on various argument types and fallacies First book on various argument types and fallacies to focus on legal argumentation Includes contributions written by top international scholars in legal theory (Frederick Schauer, Pierluigi Chiassoni, Jose Juan Moreso, Giovanni Tuzet and others) Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Thomas Bustamante
Themen in »Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation«
Absence of Evidence Ad Hominem Fallacies Anti-Theoretical Fallacy Argument Types Authority and the Conversion of Fallacious Arguments Dworkin’s Answer to Posner’s Analysis of Bush v. Gore Epistemic Credibility Fallacies in Legal Argumentation Frames of Interpretation Generality and the Conversion of Fallacious Arguments Imprecise Expressions in Argumentation Legal Argumentation Slippery Slope Arguments Statutory Expression and Proportionality