Why fallacies appear to be better arguments than they are

Informal Logic

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-184

  Walton, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Argumentation schemes; Carneades model of argumentation; Defeasiblereasoning; Errors of reasoning; Heuristics; Paraschemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958142117     PISSN: 08242577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22329/il.v30i2.2868     Document Type: Article

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