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View article: Definition: A practical guide to constructing and evaluating definitions of terms
Definition: A practical guide to constructing and evaluating definitions of terms Open
This book proposes guidelines for constructing and evaluating definitions of terms, i.e. words or phrases of general application. The guidelines extend to adoption of nomenclature. The book is meant to be a practical guide for people who f…
View article: Deep disagreement as intellectual colonialism
Deep disagreement as intellectual colonialism Open
Robert Fogelin has introduced the concept of a deep disagreement as one that makes rational argumentation impossible. People who think of themselves as enlightened may use this concept to dismiss the positions and arguments of those who se…
View article: Informal Logic: A 'Canadian' Approach to Argument
Informal Logic: A 'Canadian' Approach to Argument Open
The informal logic movement began as an attempt to develop – and teach – an alternative logic which can account for the real life arguing that surrounds us in our daily lives – in newspapers and the popular media, political and social comm…
View article: Transsubjectivity
Transsubjectivity Open
I describe and evaluate Harald Wohlrapp’s proposal in The Concept of Argument that we should see reasonable argumentation as guided by the “principle of transsubjectivity ... that, beginning with my subjectivity, I put my actual ego up for…