Denying the antecedent: Its effective use in argumentation

Informal Logic

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 327-356

  Stone, Mark ^a  

^a FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument; Argumentation; Conditional; Denying the antecedent; Fallacy; Undermine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866864451     PISSN: 08242577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22329/il.v32i3.3681     Document Type: Article

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