In Defense of Informal Logic

Levi, D.S.:

ISBN 10: 0792361482 / ISBN 13: 9780792361480

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

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XVI, 224 Seiten Innen sauberer, guter Zustand. Hardcover, Pappeinband, mit den üblichen Bibliotheks-Markierungen, Stempeln und Einträgen, innen wie außen, siehe Bilder. Einbanddeckel minimal berieben, sonst sehr gutes Bibliotheksexemplar. - Argumentation Library, volume 2. DK-20-04B Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 517.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Defense of Informal Logic
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792361482
• ISBN 13: 9780792361480
• Binding: 24,5 x 16,5 cm
• Edition: 1. Auflage.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 517 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modernes Antiquariat

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Synopsis

My impulse when I decided to collect into a single volume the essays on topics in logical theory and related subjects that I have written in the last fifteen years was to borrow from the title of a work by Sextus Empiricus, and call my collection "Against the Logicians." Although the essays address a variety of problems that interest me, the thread that runs through them is a scepticism about how logicians see things. So, the title appealed to me. However, I had second thoughts and chose instead a title of one of my own essays, "In Defense of Informal Logic", which emphasizes my support for other approaches. Although my criticisms of logical theory are designed to cut deeply, I do not want to be unresponsive to the needs that it is supposed to satisfy. However, my position that we have adequate resources for critically analyzing a particular argument and 00 not need a theory of argumentation, will not completely satisfy those who think that there is a need for it. So, I want them to know that I am taking their concerns seriously.