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fallacies and judgments of reasonableness empirical research concerning the pragma dialectical discussion rules
in fallacies and judgments of reasonableness frans h. van eemeren bart garssen and bert meuffels report on their systematic empirical research of the conventional validity of the pragma dialectical discussion rules . the experimental studies they carried out during more than ten years start from the pragma dialectical theory of argumentation developed at the university of amsterdam their home university . in these studies they test methodically the intersubjective acceptability of the rules for critical discussion proposed in this theory by confronting ordinary arguers who have not received any special education in argumentation and fallacies with discussion fragments containing both fallacious and non fallacious argumentative moves . the research covers a wide range of informal fallacies . in this way the authors create a basis for comparing the theoretical reasonableness conception of pragma dialectics with the norms for judging argumentative moves prevailing in argumentative practice . fallacies and judgments of reasonableness provides a unique insight into the relationship between theoretical and practical conceptions of reasonableness supported by extensive empirical material gained by means of sophisticated experimental research .
hardcover springer verlag 2009 isbn13 9789048126132 isbn10 9048126134
book type nf isbn 13 9789048126132 number of pages 231 publisher springer verlag volume capacity 16